Month: February 2022

If you’re paying attention to Salesforce technology at all, you’ve no doubt heard about Hyperforce, our new approach to deploying Salesforce on public cloud providers. As with any big announcement, it can be a little hard to cut through the hyperbolic language and understand what’s going on. In this blog series, we’ll demystify what Hyperforce actually… Continue reading The Unified Infrastructure Platform Behind Salesforce Hyperforce

If you’re paying attention to Salesforce technology at all, you’ve no doubt heard about Hyperforce, our new approach to deploying Salesforce on public cloud providers. As with any big announcement, it can be a little hard to cut through the hyperbolic language and understand what’s going on. In this blog series, we’ll demystify what Hyperforce actually is from a… Continue reading The Unified Infrastructure Platform Behind Salesforce Hyperforce

Maintaining billions of mutable activity records and serving them in millions of ways Summary Salesforce Activity Platform (AP) ingests, stores, and serves user’s activity data as time-sorted data sets. The accumulated data maintained by Activity Platform appears to be time-series big data. Even so, due to application requirements, the data stores for activity records need capabilities… Continue reading Embracing Mutable Big Data

Connor Thorsen had just moved to San Francisco to start his new full-time role at Salesforce when the pandemic called many employees back home. A former two-time summer intern with Salesforce Commerce Cloud in Massachusetts, Connor was hired as a software engineer on the Security UI team to build internal services and websites for the… Continue reading Connor Thorsen’s Trip of a Lifetime

Summary Salesforce Activity Platform (AP) ingests, stores, and serves user’s activity data as time-sorted data sets. The accumulated data maintained by Activity Platform appears to be time-series big data. Even so, due to application requirements, the data stores for activity records need capabilities from OLTP style databases. Managing mutable big data is very different from managing immutable… Continue reading Embracing Mutable Big Data

Detecting Multithreaded Exfiltration in Zeek In a stereotypical heist, the thief’s “grab-and-go” plan often takes one of two forms. In the first, the thief grabs all they can and makes a loud and fast exit with explosives visible from miles away. In the second, the thief slowly and quietly amasses a fortune by stealing a… Continue reading Detecting Multithreaded Exfiltration in Zeek