Patrick Shuff

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 2024, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) continues to play a pivotal role in scaling and maintaining resilient, high-availability systems. This talk delves into the critical networking knowledge that every SRE should possess to effectively manage and debug large-scale internet facing infrastructure.

- Overview of Linux Networking

- Overview of LAN concepts

- Overview of DNS

- Overview of TCP/IP

- Overview of Internet Security

- Overview of Internet Routing

- Overview of Linux Network Debugging tools

Want to learn how facebook scales their load balancing infrastructure to
support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be revealing the
technologies and methods we use to route and balance Facebook's
traffic. The Traffic team at Facebook has built several systems for
managing and balancing our site traffic, including both a DNS load
balancer and a software load balancer capable of handling several
protocols.  This talk will focus on these technologies and how they have
helped improve user performance, manage capacity, and increase reliability.