Month: February 2023

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the life experiences and career paths that have shaped Salesforce engineering leaders. Meet Kyle Patton, our vice president of software engineering, who runs the highly diverse Tableau Developer Productivity & Experiences (DP&E) team. In this role, Kyle helps developers remain laser-focused on swiftly and efficiently creating world-class… Continue reading Accelerating Developer Productivity through the Power of Diversity

While VR headsets have been with us for at least a decade, AR hardware barely exists today; indeed, the very components that will comprise the hardware scarcely exist, making it a truly zero-to-one innovation challenge. Meta’s Head of AR Glasses Hardware, Caitlin Kalinowski is helping to lead that charge. Kalinowski hails from Portsmouth, NH and… Continue reading Meta’s head of AR glasses on the future of AR hardware

From retail to healthcare to IT and beyond, countless industries rely on software development to enhance business performance. However, to optimize software innovation and performance, companies must create enhanced environments that remove productivity blockers and deliver great experiences for developers. By empowering engineers to focus more on building new features and less on internal processes,… Continue reading What is the Secret Behind Increasing Salesforce’s Developer Velocity?

We’re sharing how we’re enabling production and delivery of AV1 for Facebook Reels and Instagram Reels. We believe AV1 is the most viable codec for Meta for the coming years. It offers higher quality at a much lower bit rate compared with previous generations of video codecs. Meta has worked closely with the open source… Continue reading How Meta brought AV1 to Reels

What’s new: Meta is sharing the inside story of how it developed the Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Why it matters: Creating Ray-Ban Stories meant Meta’s engineers had to take on new challenges to build smart glasses that married complex engineering dynamics. How do you make something that features cameras, microphones, audio, and touch controls, all… Continue reading Inside Meta’s first smart glasses

In 2018, Salesforce began development of Hyperforce — a next-gen infrastructure platform that leverages public cloud to securely and swiftly deliver Salesforce software to customers worldwide. The platform development’s team priorities were focused: build Hyperforce, get it sentient, and provide cloud-native tools that drive internal product developers’ innovations, empowering them to create cutting-edge features instead… Continue reading 3 Ways Salesforce Boosts Developer Productivity on Hyperforce

Meta’s augmented reality (AR) platform is one of the largest in the world, helping the billions of people on Meta’s apps experience AR every day and giving hundreds of thousands of creators a means to express themselves Meta’s AR tools are unique because they can be used on a wide variety of devices — from… Continue reading Building a cross-platform runtime for AR