Meta recently revealed Owl, their new hot-content distribution system that provides high-fanout distribution of large data objects to hosts in Meta’s private cloud. Owl consists of a decentralized data plane based on peer-to-peer distribution trees with a centralized control plane – tracker services that keep metadata about the peers, their cache state, and ongoing downloads. By Tanmay Deshpande
Meta recently revealed Owl, their new hot-content distribution system that provides high-fanout distribution of large data objects to hosts in Meta’s private cloud. Owl consists of a decentralized data plane based on peer-to-peer distribution trees with a centralized control plane – tracker services that keep metadata about the peers, their cache state, and ongoing downloads.
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