SRE Weekly Issue #415

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Join FireHydrant and talk shop with your DevOps peers on March 28! You’ll gain a better understanding of what makes a fatigue-free on-call culture and how to implement practices to improve yours at this free, virtual roundtable. https://app.livestorm.co/firehydrant/better-incidents-spring-bonfire-secrets-to-fatigue-free-on-call-in-2024 The Wrong Way to Use DORA Metrics […]… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #415

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How the New Einstein 1 Platform Manages Massive Data and AI Workloads at Scale

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we feature Leo Tran, Chief Architect of Platform Engineering at Salesforce. With over 15 years of engineering leadership experience, Leo is instrumental in developing the Einstein 1 Platform. This platform integrates generative AI, data management, CRM capabilities, and trusted systems to provide businesses with personalized customer experiences and AI-driven… Continue reading How the New Einstein 1 Platform Manages Massive Data and AI Workloads at Scale

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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe

To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party messaging services.  We’re sharing how we enabled third-party interoperability (interop) while maintaining end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and other privacy guarantees in our services as… Continue reading Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe

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SRE Weekly Issue #414

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: 91% of engineering leaders say they want a better alerting tool. The other 9% couldn’t take the survey on their Blackberry. Meet Signals: a new standard in alerting and on call, now available. https://firehydrant.com/blog/alerting-and-on-call-scheduling-for-how-you-actually-work/ 2024 VOID Report This year’s VOID Report is out, and it’s well… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #414

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Tackling Scaling Challenges Head-On: Industry Cloud’s New Engineering Team Drives Fundraising 2.0 App Development

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we delve into the experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Jevarlo Boykins, a Lead Member of the Technical Staff for Salesforce Engineering. Jevarlo supports the new Salesforce for Nonprofits Nonprofit Cloud (NPC) team under Salesforce Industry Cloud — empowering fundraisers in the nonprofit sector with innovative products… Continue reading Tackling Scaling Challenges Head-On: Industry Cloud’s New Engineering Team Drives Fundraising 2.0 App Development

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How DotSlash makes executable deployment simpler

Andres Suarez and Michael Bolin, two software engineers at Meta, join Pascal Hartig (@passy) on the Meta Tech Podcast to discuss the ins and outs of DotSlash, a new open source tool from Meta. DotSlash takes the pain out of distributing binaries and toolchains to developers. Instead of committing large, platform-specific executables to a repository,… Continue reading How DotSlash makes executable deployment simpler

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SRE Weekly Issue #413

View on sreweekly.com Sorry about the automation fail and resend! That definitely wasn’t issue #1. A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Check out how global payments company Dock uses FireHydrant to streamline and consolidate their incident management stack and reduce what they call “mean time to combat.”https://firehydrant.com/blog/the-revolution-in-critical-incident-response-at-dock-with-firehydrant/ The Domain of Failure This article discusses building… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #413

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Unlocking Hyperforce Migration: Innovative Solutions for a Smooth Transition to the Cloud

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we delve into the experiences and expertise of Salesforce Engineering leaders. Today, we’re meeting Mahamadou Sylla, a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Salesforce Engineering. Mahamadou is a key member of our Hyperforce’s Bill of Materials (BOM) team, which assists internal teams in automatically migrating their cloud resources… Continue reading Unlocking Hyperforce Migration: Innovative Solutions for a Smooth Transition to the Cloud

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

We’ve partnered with Voltron Data and the Arrow community to align and converge Apache Arrow with Velox, Meta’s open source execution engine. Apache Arrow 15 includes three new format layouts developed through this partnership: StringView, ListView, and Run-End-Encoding (REE). This new convergence helps Meta and the larger community build data management systems that are unified,… Continue reading Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

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