Infrastructure
Meta deploys ZGateway to unify traffic across massive ZippyDB store
Meta introduced ZGateway, a robust proxy architecture built to manage traffic and load balancing for its primary key-value database.
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The short version
- Meta Engineering detailed its new ZGateway proxy on September 3, 2026, designed to unify database access layers.
- ZippyDB is Meta's most widely used key-value database, backing product metadata, user sequences, and ads models.
- The ZGateway proxy introduces admission control, cross-region resilience, and microsecond-scale latency optimizations.
Meta introduced ZGateway, a robust proxy architecture built to manage traffic and load balancing for its primary key-value database.