# Meta — ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB

- Company: Meta (meta.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-03T16:00:20+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2026/09/03/core-infra/zgateway-proxy-zippydb-meta/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8055-zgateway-learnings-from-putting-a-proxy-in-front-of-zippydb
- Subject: Llama / infrastructure

Meta introduced ZGateway, a stateless proxy tier for ZippyDB that unifies client traffic, enables admission control, load balancing, cross-region resilience, and richer operations. It handles over 1 billion operations per second and carries about 40% of all ZippyDB traffic, projected to grow past 60%, while adding only about 6% computational overhead.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://engineering.fb.com/2026/09/03/core-infra/zgateway-proxy-zippydb-meta/:

> We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store. ... It can handle greater than 1 billion operations per second and carries about 40% of all ZippyDB traffic, projected to grow past 60%, while adding only about 6% computational overhead to an average use case.

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