Facebook is particularly interested in research that address fundamental challenges that arise in distributed systems operating at an extremely large scale.
Example topics include:
- Distributed performance tracing and analysis
- Efficient shard mapping and placement (on the order of billions of shards)
- Request load balancing (e.g., for HTTP and RPC traffic)
- Fault tolerance (with a focus on power and network fault domains)
- Large-scale configuration management, monitoring, and deployment
- Efficient use of hardware resources via software codesign