Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is officially joining the nonprofit Rust Foundation. Alongside fellow members including Mozilla (the creators of Rust), AWS, Microsoft, and Google, Facebook will be working to… Continue reading A brief history of Rust at Facebook
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SRE Weekly Issue #268
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join StackHawk Tuesday May 4 at 9 am PT for a hands-on technical workshop! By the end of the session, you will have three types of security testing running in your GitHub pipeline. Register: http://sthwk.com/technical-workshop Articles Manageable On-Call for Companies without Money Printers The SRE book… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #268
SRE Weekly Issue #269
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Tune into ZAPCon After Hours this Tuesday at 8 am PT to learn how to include automated security testing in your builds with ZAP http://sthwk.com/after-hours-3 Articles Edgar: Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability We built Edgar to ease this burden, by empowering our users to troubleshoot distributed… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #269
Most of computing’s carbon emissions are coming from manufacturing and infrastructure
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Blazing the Trail: One Year with OpenJDK 11
Early Adoption of Java Runtime Innovations in Production at Scale Co-written by Donna Thomas Introduction Salesforce was one of the first major enterprises to adopt OpenJDK 11 at scale in production, starting our adoption journey shortly after its release in late 2018. Cutting edge? Sure. Safe? Absolutely. You might not know this, but Salesforce has led the… Continue reading Blazing the Trail: One Year with OpenJDK 11
Running Border Gateway Protocol in large-scale data centers
What the research is: A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BGP was originally designed to interconnect autonomous internet service providers (ISPs) on the global internet. Highly scalable and widely acknowledged as an attractive choice for routing, BGP… Continue reading Running Border Gateway Protocol in large-scale data centers
SRE Weekly Issue #270
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: APIs are not only the backbone of modern application architecture, but they are also a key part of security. Discover what API security testing is, how it works, and get started using API security tools http://sthwk.com/API-security Articles Thundering herds, noisy neighbours, and retry storms This is… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #270
Designing Accessible Builder Apps
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) highlights the importance of Digital Access and Inclusion for over 1 Billion People with Disabilities around the world. We enthusiastically celebrate GAAD at Salesforce because it directly speaks to our role in creating a more inclusive and just world. The World Health Organization defines Disability as “…a mismatched interaction between… Continue reading Designing Accessible Builder Apps
Peering automation at Facebook
Traffic on the internet travels across many different kinds of links. A fast and reliable way to exchange traffic between different networks and service providers is through peering. Initially, we managed peering via a time-intensive manual process. Reliable peering is essential for Facebook and for everyone’s internet use. But there is no industry standard for… Continue reading Peering automation at Facebook
SRE Weekly Issue #271
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: Join StackHawk on Tuesday, May 25 for a hands-on authenticated security testing workshop. Follow along as we walk through three common authentication scenarios step-by-step. Register: http://sthwk.com/auth-workshop Articles Naming names in incident writeups Should you keep things anonymous (“an engineer”), or should you say exactly who did… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #271