Building a Billion User Load Balancer

This course teaches how to scale load balancing infrastructure to support billions of users, focusing on technologies and methods used by Facebook. The course covers global routing, DNS load balancing, software load balancing for multiple protocols, and their impact on user performance, capacity management, and reliability. The course includes topics such as traffic metrics, dynamic requests, protocols, round trip time, edge pops, and considerations. The intended audience for this course is individuals interested in learning about advanced load balancing techniques and technologies used by large-scale platforms.