Facebook Engineering Blog Open Source Events Videos Publications Mobile Web Data Infra Culture Engineering Blog Yuval Bachar Adam Simpkins Posted 7 hours ago Infra We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient. This approach has guided Facebook from the beginning, as we’ve grown and expanded our infrastructure to connect more than 1.28 billion people around the world. Over the last three years, we’ve been working within the Open Compute Project (OCP) to apply this principle to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards. And last year, we kicked off a new networking project within OCP , with a goal of developing designs for OS-agnostic top-of-rack (TOR) switches. This was the first step toward ...