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In 2018, Salesforce began development of Hyperforce — a next-gen infrastructure platform that leverages public cloud to securely and swiftly deliver Salesforce software to customers worldwide. The platform development’s team priorities were focused: build Hyperforce, get it sentient, and provide cloud-native tools that drive internal product developers’ innovations, empowering them to create cutting-edge features instead… Continue reading 3 Ways Salesforce Boosts Developer Productivity on Hyperforce

Meta’s augmented reality (AR) platform is one of the largest in the world, helping the billions of people on Meta’s apps experience AR every day and giving hundreds of thousands of creators a means to express themselves Meta’s AR tools are unique because they can be used on a wide variety of devices — from… Continue reading Building a cross-platform runtime for AR

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the life experiences and career paths that have shaped Salesforce engineering leaders. Meet Kwesi Ames, our vice president of software engineering, who leads the Hyperforce Solutions Engineering team (HSE). Kwesi and his globally distributed team (hailing from the U.S., Ireland, and India) provide a guided journey for… Continue reading How is Salesforce Driving a Culture of Collaboration in Engineering?

A lot has changed since the initial launch of our basemap in late 2020. We’re Meta now, but our mission remains the same: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Across Meta, our family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among others) are using our basemap to connect people through… Continue reading Improving Meta’s global maps

Facebook for iOS (FBiOS) is the oldest mobile codebase at Meta. Since the app was rewritten in 2012, it has been worked on by thousands of engineers and shipped to billions of users, and it can support hundreds of engineers iterating on it at a time. After years of iteration, the Facebook codebase does not… Continue reading The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture

We’ve made architecture changes to Meta’s event driven asynchronous computing platform that have  enabled easy integration with multiple event-sources.  We’re sharing our learnings from handling various workloads and how to tackle trade offs made with certain design choices in building the platform. Asynchronous computing is a paradigm where the user does not expect a workload… Continue reading Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings

Managing network solutions amidst a growing scale inherently brings challenges around performance, deployment, and operational complexities.  At Meta, we’ve found that these challenges broadly fall into three themes: 1.)   Data center networking: Over the past decade, on the physical front, we have seen a rise in vendor-specific hardware that comes with heterogeneous feature and… Continue reading Watch Meta’s engineers discuss optimizing large-scale networks