Alibaba says its new low-level software has reduced network outages, lowered load balancing costs, and improved SmartNIC performance by shifting workloads to underused infrastructure. As reported by The Register, the company outlined its results in three research papers it plans to present at the SIGCOMM conference next week.
One of the papers introduces a system called ZooRoute, designed to keep cloud networks running when failures occur. Alibaba’s researchers describe it as “a fast failure recovery service that ensures global bypass in…
