Improving Instagram notification management with machine learning and causal inference

We’re sharing how Meta is applying statistics and machine learning (ML) to improve notification personalization and management on Instagram – particularly on daily digest push notifications. By using causal inference and ML to identify highly active users who are likely to see more content organically, we have been able to reduce the number of notifications… Continue reading Improving Instagram notification management with machine learning and causal inference

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SRE Weekly Issue #345

View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly is now on Mastodon at @SREWeekly@social.linux.pizza! Follow to get notified of each new issue as it comes out. This replaces the Twitter account @SREWeekly, which I am now retiring in favor of Mastodon. For those of you following @SREWeekly on Twitter, you’ll need to choose a different way to get… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #345

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How Salesforce Built a Cloud-Native Task Execution Service

If you’re paying attention to Salesforce technology, you’ve no doubt heard about Hyperforce, our new approach to deploying Salesforce on public cloud providers. Start with a look at Hyperforce’s architecture. There are many compelling reasons to move to Hyperforce, both for us and our customers. We’re excited to do it in the way that only Salesforce would… Continue reading How Salesforce Built a Cloud-Native Task Execution Service

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From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

We’re sharing lessons learned from shifting our Android development from Java to Kotlin. Kotlin is a popular language for Android development and offers some key advantages over Java.  As of today, our Android codebase contains over 10 million lines of Kotlin code. We’re open sourcing various examples and utilities we used to manipulate Kotlin code… Continue reading From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin

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SRE Weekly Issue #344

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Rootly automates manual tasks like creating an incident channel, Jira ticket and Zoom rooms, inviting responders, creating statuspage updates, postmortem timelines and more. Want to see why companies like Canva and Grammarly love us?: https://rootly.com/demo/ Articles Hidden Risks of… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #344

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OCP Summit 2022: Open hardware for AI infrastructure

At OCP Summit 2022, we’re announcing Grand Teton, our next-generation platform for AI at scale that we’ll contribute to the OCP community. We’re also sharing new innovations designed to support data centers as they advance to support new AI technologies: A new, more efficient version of Open Rack. Our Air-Assisted Liquid Cooling (AALC) – design.… Continue reading OCP Summit 2022: Open hardware for AI infrastructure

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SRE Weekly Issue #343

View on sreweekly.com Bit of a short one this week as I recover from my third bout of COVID. Fortunately, this is another relatively mild one (thank you, vaccine!). Good luck everyone, and get your boosters. A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Rootly automates manual tasks like creating… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #343

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SRE Weekly Issue #342

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Rootly automates manual tasks like creating an incident channel, Jira ticket and Zoom rooms, inviting responders, creating statuspage updates, postmortem timelines and more. Want to see why companies like Canva and Grammarly love us?: https://rootly.com/demo/ Articles Video Observability As… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #342

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SRE Weekly Issue #341

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Rootly automates manual tasks like creating an incident channel, Jira ticket and Zoom rooms, inviting responders, creating statuspage updates, postmortem timelines and more. Want to see why companies like Canva and Grammarly love us?: https://rootly.com/demo/ Articles https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s11-bronson.pdf My coworkers… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #341

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