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Meta open-sources Rebalancer assignment solver for infrastructure management

Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, a C++ assignment solver that has been used internally for over nine years. This tool manages approximately 40 million placement problems daily, distributing shards, servers, and traffic across Meta's infrastructure. The company has released Rebalancer under the Apache 2.0 license. AI

IMPACT This open-source release provides infrastructure teams with a battle-tested tool for managing complex placement problems at scale.

RANK_REASON Meta open-sourced an internal infrastructure management tool.

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Meta open-sources Rebalancer assignment solver for infrastructure management

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    Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, a C++ assignment solver the company has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic across its infrastructure.

    Meta has open-sourced Rebalancer, a C++ assignment solver the company has used for over 9 years to place shards, servers and traffic across its infrastructure. The tool handles about 40 million placement problems a day and is now available under Apache 2.0. https://www. marktechp…