July 2023 – FDE

SRE Weekly Issue #383

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Eliminate the anxiety around declaring an incident for nebulous problems by introducing a triage phase into your incident management process. Our latest blog posts dives into why the triage phase is so important, and how you can automate yours with Rootly. Read more on the Rootly… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #383

Iterating Towards Perfection: Designing Slack Huddles’ New Video Experience

By Genevieve Cuevas and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Genevieve Cuevas, a Senior Director of Mobile Software Engineering for Slack at Salesforce. In her role, Genevieve leads Slack’s Virtual HQ team, where she innovates dynamic new features for Slack.… Continue reading Iterating Towards Perfection: Designing Slack Huddles’ New Video Experience

SRE Weekly Issue #382

How Can Apache Spark Windowing Supercharge Your Performance and Simplify Coding?

By Matan Rabi and Scott Nyberg. Salesforce Einstein’s data scales generate terabytes of data each day to train, test, and observe AI models. By only utilizing one machine, this time-consuming process could take days or weeks to complete. In response, Einstein’s Machine Learning Observability Platform (MLOP) team uses Apache Spark, an open-source framework module for… Continue reading How Can Apache Spark Windowing Supercharge Your Performance and Simplify Coding?

Bringing HDR video to Reels

Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved… Continue reading Bringing HDR video to Reels

SRE Weekly Issue #381

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Curious how companies like Elastic, Tripadvisor, and 100s of others leverage Rootly to manage incidents in Slack and unlock instant best practices? Check out this lightning demo: https://www.loom.com/share/051c4be0425a436e888dc0c3690855ad Articles The Pyramid of Alerting The Pyramid introduced in this article is three levels of monitoring: Operational, Data… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #381

How is Salesforce Einstein Optimizing AI Classification Model Accuracy?

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Matan Rabi, Senior Software Engineer on Salesforce Einstein’s Machine Learning Observability Platform (MLOP) team. Matan and his team strive to optimize the accuracy of Einstein’s AI classification models, empowering customers across industries to enhance efficiency and provide… Continue reading How is Salesforce Einstein Optimizing AI Classification Model Accuracy?

SRE Weekly Issue #380

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Curious how companies like Elastic, Tripadvisor, and 100s of others leverage Rootly to manage incidents in Slack and unlock instant best practices? Check out this lightning demo: https://www.loom.com/share/051c4be0425a436e888dc0c3690855ad Articles Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a Monolith after All Well, that cleared things up.… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #380

SRE Weekly Issue #379

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Curious how companies like Figma, Tripadvisor, and 100s of others leverage Rootly to manage incidents in Slack and unlock instant best practices? Check out this lightning demo: https://www.loom.com/share/051c4be0425a436e888dc0c3690855ad Articles The Saga Is Antipattern In case you weren’t familiar with the Saga pattern like I was, it’s… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #379