Month: May 2023

When a legacy operating system (OS) approaches its end-of-support date, some organizations will upgrade their OS as fast as possible. Others may kick the can down the road, delaying any headaches they might encounter during the upgrade process. Six years ago, Salesforce Engineering put the pedal to the metal, migrating to CentOS 7, an open-source… Continue reading Automation at Scale: Migrating 200,000 Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in… Continue reading Bombyx is being licensed for product development

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  We’re rolling out MySQL Raft with the aim to eventually replace our current MySQL semisynchronous databases.  The biggest win of MySQL Raft was simplification of the operation and making MySQL servers take care of promotions and membership. This gave the provable safety of Raft and reduced significant operational pain. Making MySQL server a true… Continue reading Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. In this special edition, we meet Pratima Shukla, a software engineering manager based in Bangalore, India. In her role, Pratima leads Salesforce India’s Industries Cloud Public Sector Solution (PSS) team, where she is responsible for delivering cutting-edge… Continue reading Automation Engineering Secrets Revealed: Slashing Customer Processing Time from Hours to Seconds