Blazing the Trail: One Year with OpenJDK 11

Early Adoption of Java Runtime Innovations in Production at Scale Co-written by Donna Thomas Introduction Salesforce was one of the first major enterprises to adopt OpenJDK 11 at scale in production, starting our adoption journey shortly after its release in late 2018. Cutting edge? Sure. Safe? Absolutely. You might not know this, but Salesforce has led the… Continue reading Blazing the Trail: One Year with OpenJDK 11

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SRE Weekly Issue #269

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Tune into ZAPCon After Hours this Tuesday at 8 am PT to learn how to include automated security testing in your builds with ZAP http://sthwk.com/after-hours-3 Articles Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability We built Edgar to ease this burden, by empowering our users to troubleshoot distributed… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #269

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SRE Weekly Issue #268

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join StackHawk Tuesday May 4 at 9 am PT for a hands-on technical workshop! By the end of the session, you will have three types of security testing running in your GitHub pipeline. Register: http://sthwk.com/technical-workshop Articles Manageable On-Call for Companies without Money Printers The SRE book… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #268

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A brief history of Rust at Facebook

Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is officially joining the nonprofit Rust Foundation. Alongside fellow members including Mozilla (the creators of Rust), AWS, Microsoft, and Google, Facebook will be working to… Continue reading A brief history of Rust at Facebook

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Reverse debugging at scale

Say you receive an email notification that a service is crashing just after your last code change deploys. The crash happens in only 0.1 percent of the servers where it runs. But you’re at a large-scale company, so 0.1 percent equals thousands of servers — and this issue is going to be hard to reproduce. Several… Continue reading Reverse debugging at scale

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SRE Weekly Issue #267

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Serverless doesn’t mean secure. Use modern security testing tools to assess serverless applications for vulnerabilities during development. http://sthwk.com/serverless Articles SRE Case Study: Mysterious Traffic Imbalance Yet more proof that DNS behavior varies way more than is obvious at first glance. Who the heck thought longest common… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #267

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SRE Weekly Issue #266

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Are you a ZAP user looking to automate your security testing? Make sure to tune in to ZAPCon After Hours on Tuesday at 8 am PT to see how you can use Jenkins and Zest scripts to automate ZAP. http://sthwk.com/zapcon-ah Articles Airplane takes off a metric… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #266

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SRE Weekly Issue #265

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join StackHawk and WhiteSource tomorrow morning to learn about automated security testing in the DevOps pipeline. With automated dynamic testing and software composition analysis, you can be sure you’re shipping secure APIs and applications. Grab your spot: http://sthwk.com/stackhawk-whitesource Articles Insights into a Product SRE team at… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #265

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