Billions of daily users. Millions of servers. Tens of thousands of application requests hitting those platforms every second. How do you keep up with the networking needs for a data center footprint like that? How do you even begin to map out what meeting those needs should look like?
For most businesses, questions like these are purely theoretical, a thought experiment you might contemplate to build more scalable infrastructure. For the world’s webscale companies though—Google, Microsoft, Facebook, a handful of others like them—these questions need concrete answers every day. And millions of companies, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of business, depend on getting them right.
