At Meta, Bento is our internal Jupyter notebooks platform that is leveraged by many internal users. Notebooks are also being used widely for creating reports and workflows (for example, performing data ETL) that need to be repeated at certain intervals. Users with such notebooks would have to remember to manually run their notebooks at the… Continue reading Scheduling Jupyter Notebooks at Meta
Month: August 2023
Data Enrichment and Automation: Helping Salesforce Security Overcome the Threat Identification Challenge
By Matt Saunders and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Matt Saunders, a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Salesforce, supporting the Detection and Response Machine Learning team. In his role, Matt focuses on safeguarding Salesforce’s network by detecting… Continue reading Data Enrichment and Automation: Helping Salesforce Security Overcome the Threat Identification Challenge
SRE Weekly Issue #387
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an already difficult situation. Learn the essentials of customer-facing incident communication in Rootly’s latest blog post:https://rootly.com/blog/the-medium-is-the-message-how-to-master-the-most-essential-incident-communication-channels Articles Scaling Software Systems: 10 Key Factors In this post, we’ll explore… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #387
Code Llama: Meta’s state-of-the-art LLM for coding
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How is Einstein GPT Shaping the Future of Salesforce Development and Unleashing Developer Productivity?
By Yingbo Zhou and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Yingbo Zhou, a Senior Director of Research for Salesforce AI Research, where he leads the team to develop the model for Einstein GPT for Developers a set of next-gen AI… Continue reading How is Einstein GPT Shaping the Future of Salesforce Development and Unleashing Developer Productivity?
SRE Weekly Issue #386
View on sreweekly.com This issue was delayed a day while I was enjoying a much-needed vacation with my family. While I’m on the subject, it’s hot take time: vacations are important for the reliability of our sociotechnical systems, so good SREs should take vacations regularly and encourage others to as well. A message from our… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #386
Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
Instagram has introduced Immortal Objects – PEP-683 – to Python. Now, objects can bypass reference count checks and live throughout the entire execution of the runtime, unlocking exciting avenues for true parallelism. At Meta, we use Python (Django) for our frontend server within Instagram. To handle parallelism, we rely on a multi-process architecture along with… Continue reading Introducing Immortal Objects for Python
Meta Connect 2023: September 27 – 28
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SRE Weekly Issue #385
View on sreweekly.com Many apologies to Matt Cooper at GitHub, who is the actual author of the article Scaling Merge-ort Across GitHub from last week. Sorry for the mis-credit, Matt! A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact your customers, failing to communicate with them effectively can erode trust even further and compound an… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #385
Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system
Explore is one of the largest recommendation systems on Instagram. We leverage machine learning to make sure people are always seeing content that is the most interesting and relevant to them. Using more advanced machine learning models, like Two Towers neural networks, we’ve been able to make the Explore recommendation system even more scalable and… Continue reading Scaling the Instagram Explore recommendations system