How the Cinder JIT’s function inliner helps us optimize Instagram

Since Instagram runs one of the world’s largest deployments of the Django web framework, we have natural interest in finding ways to optimize Python so we can speed up our production application. As part of this effort, we’ve recently open-sourced Cinder, our Python runtime that is a fork of CPython. Cinder includes optimizations like immortal… Continue reading How the Cinder JIT’s function inliner helps us optimize Instagram

A new way to survey potential fiber routes — without access to paved roads

Delivering on our vision for the metaverse will require us to reimagine a network infrastructure capable of supporting the computing platforms of the future. Although the metaverse is still a ways off, elements of it are already underway and we are already collaborating with telecommunications companies around the world to develop shared, open access optical… Continue reading A new way to survey potential fiber routes — without access to paved roads

SRE Weekly Issue #320

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging and adding responders, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. Book a demo (+ get a snazzy Rootly lego set): https://rootly.com/demo/ Articles Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #320

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