View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: How is FireHydrant building its alerting tool, Signals, to be robust, lightning-fast, and configurable to how YOU work? In this edition, of their Captain’s Log, they dive into CEL and how they’re using it to handle routing and logic. https://firehydrant.com/blog/captains-log-how-were-leveraging-cel/ A guide to Managing the First… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #400
Month: November 2023
Writing and linting Python at scale
Python plays a big part at Meta. It powers Instagram’s backend and plays an important role in our configuration systems, as well as much of our AI work. Meta even made contributions to Python 3.12, the latest version of Python. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined by Amethyst… Continue reading Writing and linting Python at scale
Indian Women in Tech: 7 Key Strategies for Elevating Your Salesforce Career
By Lata Valluri While women comprise 36% of India’s IT workforce — a 100% increase since 2013 — they only hold 25% of managerial positions, with less than 1% in C-Suite positions. I am focused on improving this inequality. As a Director that focuses on leadership development in India, I created the Rise program in… Continue reading Indian Women in Tech: 7 Key Strategies for Elevating Your Salesforce Career
SRE Weekly Issue #399
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Severity levels help responders and stakeholders understand the incident impact and set expectations for the level of response. This can mean jumping into action faster. But first, you have to ensure severity is actually being set. Here’s one way. https://firehydrant.com/blog/incident-severity-why-you-need-it-and-how-to-ensure-its-set/ Paper: How in the World Did… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #399
Watch: Meta’s engineers on building network infrastructure for AI
Meta is building for the future of AI at every level – from hardware like MTIA v1, Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator to publicly released models like Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation large language model, as well as new generative AI (GenAI) tools like Code Llama. Delivering next-generation AI products and services at Meta’s scale also… Continue reading Watch: Meta’s engineers on building network infrastructure for AI
Future-Driven Dev Empowerment: Slack SVP Tackles New AI and Automation Challenges Head-On
By Rukmini Reddy and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Rukmini Reddy, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering for the Slack platform. Her team’s goal is to empower developers, enhance productivity, and push the envelope of AI and automation innovation at… Continue reading Future-Driven Dev Empowerment: Slack SVP Tackles New AI and Automation Challenges Head-On
SRE Weekly Issue #398
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: “Change is the essential process of all existence.” – Spock It’s time for alerting to evolve. Get a first look at how incident management platform FireHydrant is architecting Signals, its native alerting tool, for resilience in the Signals Captain’s Log. https://firehydrant.com/blog/captains-log-a-first-look-at-our-architecture-for-signals/ Precise Communication Saves Lives A… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #398
Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls
New optional features in WhatsApp have helped make calling on WhatsApp more secure. “Silence Unknown Callers” is a new setting on WhatsApp that not only quiets annoying calls but also blocks sophisticated cyber attacks. “Protect IP Address in Calls” is a new setting on WhatsApp that helps hide your location from other parties on the… Continue reading Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls
Einstein for Flow: Bringing AI Innovation to the Next Generation of Automation
By Vera Vetter, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Vera Vetter, Product Management Director for Salesforce AI Research and a co-Product Manager for Einstein for Flow, a game-changing AI product that is revolutionizing Salesforce workflow automation.… Continue reading Einstein for Flow: Bringing AI Innovation to the Next Generation of Automation
I’ll be at KubeCon North America
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