View on sreweekly.com Got any burning questions to ask an experienced SRE? I’m gathering your questions in this google form, and I’d love to hear from you. I’m hoping to use your questions to help inspire authors looking to write more great SRE-related content. A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #426
Month: May 2024
Hyperforce Behind the Scenes: Ushering in a New Age of AI-Driven Cloud Scalability
In our latest edition of our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we meet Paul Constantinides, Executive Vice President of Engineering. With an extensive history in the technology industry, and a 20-year career at Salesforce, Paul leads the Hyperforce Platform Services team and is responsible for developing Hyperforce, Salesforce’s public cloud-native architecture that enables enhanced trust, global… Continue reading Hyperforce Behind the Scenes: Ushering in a New Age of AI-Driven Cloud Scalability
Composable data management at Meta
In recent years, Meta’s data management systems have evolved into a composable architecture that creates interoperability, promotes reusability, and improves engineering efficiency. We’re sharing how we’ve achieved this, in part, by leveraging Velox, Meta’s open source execution engine, as well as work ahead as we continue to rethink our data management systems. Data is at… Continue reading Composable data management at Meta
Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta
Today, the internet (like most digital infrastructure in general) relies heavily on the security offered by public-key cryptosystems such as RSA, Diffie-Hellman (DH), and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). But the advent of quantum computers has raised real questions about the long-term privacy of data exchanged over the internet. In the future, significant advances in quantum… Continue reading Post-quantum readiness for TLS at Meta
SRE Weekly Issue #425
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! Power up your incidents with auto-generated real-time summaries, retrospectives, and status page updates. https://firehydrant.com/blog/ai-for-incident-management-is-here/ Presenting to Engineering Leadership Great practical advice for how to present reliability problems (and your proposed solutions) to e-staff. Ross Brodbeck Green is the… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #425
Revealing Einstein’s Blueprint for Creating the New, Unified AI Platform from Siloed Legacy Stacks
In our insightful “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we delve into the inspiring journeys of engineering leaders who have achieved remarkable success in their specific domains. Today, we meet Indira Iyer, Senior Vice President of Salesforce Engineering, leading Salesforce Einstein development. Her team’s mission is to build Salesforce’s next-gen AI Platform, which empowers both internal teams… Continue reading Revealing Einstein’s Blueprint for Creating the New, Unified AI Platform from Siloed Legacy Stacks
Behind the scenes of Threads for web
When Threads first launched one of the top feature requests was for a web client. In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig (@passy) sits down with Ally C. and Kevin C., two engineers on the Threads Web Team that delivered the basic version of Threads for web in just under three months.… Continue reading Behind the scenes of Threads for web
SRE Weekly Issue #424
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! Power up your incidents with auto-generated real-time summaries, retrospectives, and status page updates. https://firehydrant.com/blog/ai-for-incident-management-is-here/ My Availability Investment Playbook Here’s an ultra-practical guide to pushing for reliability investments at your company, formatted as a runbook with a set of… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #424
The New Einstein for Developers Streamlines Your Workflow: Say Goodbye to Time-Consuming Tasks
In our latest article for our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we meet Christopher Williams, Vice President of Software Engineering. With over 17 years at Salesforce under his belt, Christopher today leads the development of Einstein for Developers. From eliminating time-consuming tasks to providing intelligent code completions, this groundbreaking tool empowers developer productivity and revolutionizes the… Continue reading The New Einstein for Developers Streamlines Your Workflow: Say Goodbye to Time-Consuming Tasks
SRE Weekly Issue #423
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: FireHydrant is now AI-powered for faster, smarter incidents! Power up your incidents with auto-generated real-time summaries, retrospectives, and status page updates. https://firehydrant.com/blog/ai-for-incident-management-is-here/ How to Fight Alert Fatigue with Synthetic Monitoring This one’s full of great advice about making sure alerts are actionable, including alerting on flows… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #423