Managing Meta's millions of machines

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.

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Featuring:

• Anita Zhang – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Decoder podcast with Drew Houston
• Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure

Faux or fo sho

• Attention is all you need
• Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
• Causally Abstracted Multi-armed Bandits

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:00:52)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

3. The opener (00:03:15)

4. Welcome Anita Zhang (00:16:28)

5. Meta's infrastructure (00:17:19)

6. Provisioning OS (00:18:34)

7. Fedora ELN & CentOS stream (00:20:00)

8. In-house automation (00:21:13)

9. What is Twshared? (00:22:54)

10. JournalD inside a container (00:24:44)

11. Host profiles (00:25:47)

12. Coolest sweatshirt ever (00:27:23)

13. Meta & open source (00:28:01)

14. Frequent releases and 1M hosts?!? (00:29:35)

15. Meta's AI fleet (00:30:48)

16. Production engineer vs Production engineer (00:31:43)

17. Other internal services (00:32:34)

18. OS challenges (00:35:05)

19. One size fits all? (00:36:07)

20. Meta's AI adoption (00:37:20)

21. Cost optimization (00:38:09)

22. Lots of abstraction (00:40:07)

23. Upcoming projects? (00:41:39)

24. Immutable file system (00:43:55)

25. Thanks for joining us! (00:45:36)

26. Sponsor: Sentry (00:48:37)

https://sentry.io/

27. The closer (00:52:34)

28. Faux or Fo Sho? (00:52:48)

29. Outro (01:02:04)