Meta Introduces ZGateway: A Stateless Proxy Tier That Unifies ZippyDB Traffic and Handles Over 1 Billion Operations Per Second

Meta engineering team introduced ZGateway, a proxy tier that now sits between client applications and ZippyDB, the Meta’s most widely used key value store. ZippyDB backs product metadata, counters, and configuration at billions of operations per second. ZGateway started as a fix for connection sprawl across more than a million client hosts and...