Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers. You can think about it as a third layer of load balancing. First we split the traffic across multiple IP addresses with DNS. Then we split the traffic across multiple datacenters with Anycast. Finally,
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