View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Rootly is proud to have been recognized by G2 as a High Performer and Enterprise Leader in Incident Management for the sixth consecutive quarter! In total, we received nine G2 awards in the Summer Report. As a thank-you to our community, we’re giving away some awesome… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #391
Month: September 2023
Women in Tech: 5 Key Tips for Building a Lasting Career at Salesforce
While women make up half of those employed in STEM jobs and demonstrate exceptional leadership and innovation capabilities, they’re still largely underrepresented in senior leadership — making up just one in four C-Suite positions. I’m working to tackle this disparity. As the Director of TPIL Learning (Technology, People, Innovation, and Learning) at Salesforce, I provide… Continue reading Women in Tech: 5 Key Tips for Building a Lasting Career at Salesforce
SRE Weekly Issue #390
View on sreweekly.com Many apologies to my email subscribers, who have seen two accidental re-sends of old issues recently due to a weird glitch in my automation. I think I’ve gotten a handle on it, and I’ll run an internal retrospective of this incident, of course. A message from our sponsor, Rootly: When incidents impact… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #390
Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense
Meta’s Native Assurance team regularly performs manual code reviews as part of our ongoing commitment to improve the security posture of Meta’s products. In 2021, we discovered a vulnerability in the Meta Quest 2’s Android-based OS that never made it to production but helped us find new ways to improve the security of Meta Quest… Continue reading Meta Quest 2: Defense through offense
Slack Behind the Scenes: Overcoming Key Challenges to Craft a Seamless Mobile App
By Tracy Stampfli and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Tracy Stampfli, a Principal Software Engineer for Slack at Salesforce. Tracy works behind the scenes on Slack’s mobile infrastructure team — an elite group of innovative engineers who ensure that… Continue reading Slack Behind the Scenes: Overcoming Key Challenges to Craft a Seamless Mobile App
SRE Weekly Issue #389
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 Building a Successful SRE Team Here’s four of the lessons… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #389
Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization
Meta presents Chakra execution traces, an open graph-based representation of AI/ML workload execution, laying the foundation for benchmarking and network performance optimization. Chakra execution traces represent key operations, such as compute, memory, and communication, data and control dependencies, timing, and resource constraints. In collaboration with MLCommons, we are seeking industry-wide adoption for benchmarking. Meta open… Continue reading Using Chakra execution traces for benchmarking and network performance optimization
Arcadia: An end-to-end AI system performance simulator
We’re introducing Arcadia, Meta’s unified system that simulates the compute, memory, and network performance of AI training clusters. Extracting maximum performance from an AI cluster and increasing overall efficiency warrants a multi-input system that accounts for various hardware and software parameters across compute, storage, and network collectively. Arcadia gives Meta’s researchers and engineers valuable insights… Continue reading Arcadia: An end-to-end AI system performance simulator
Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
Earlier this year, a small team of engineers at Meta started working on an idea for a new app. It would have all the features people expect from a text-based conversations app, but with one very key, distinctive goal – being an app that would allow people to share their content across multiple platforms. We… Continue reading Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
What’s it like to write code at Meta?
Ever wonder what it’s like to write code at Meta’s scale? On the latest episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Dustin Shahidehpour and Katherine Zak, two software engineers at Meta, about their careers and what it’s really like to ship code at Meta. Why does Meta have a monorepo?… Continue reading What’s it like to write code at Meta?