Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. ACS enhances privacy and security while also being compute-conscious. By open-sourcing and fostering a community for ACS, we believe we can accelerate the pace of innovation in de-identified authentication. Data minimization — collecting the… Continue reading Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service
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SRE Weekly Issue #351
View on sreweekly.com Seven years ago, I was busy pulling together content for the first several issues of SRE Weekly. Since then, I estimate that I’ve consumed over 6000 articles in my quest to curate content each week, most of them via text-to-speech. You all make it worthwhile! Thank you so much for reading, and… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #351
SRE Weekly Issue #350
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Rootly automates manual tasks like creating an incident channel, Jira ticket and Zoom rooms, inviting responders, creating statuspage updates, postmortem timelines and more. Want to see why companies like Canva and Grammarly love us?: https://rootly.com/demo/ Articles GPT-3: How to… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #350
Enabling static analysis of SQL queries at Meta
UPM is our internal standalone library to perform static analysis of SQL code and enhance SQL authoring. UPM takes SQL code as input and represents it as a data structure called a semantic tree. Infrastructure teams at Meta leverage UPM to build SQL linters, catch user mistakes in SQL code, and perform data lineage analysis… Continue reading Enabling static analysis of SQL queries at Meta
SRE Weekly Issue #349
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Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
We developed a new static analysis tool called Nullsafe that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code. Interoperability with legacy code and gradual deployment model were key to Nullsafe’s wide adoption and allowed us to recover some null-safety properties in the context of an otherwise null-unsafe language in a multimillion-line… Continue reading Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
PTP: Timing accuracy and precision for the future of computing
Meta is deploying a timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), that will offer new levels of accuracy and precision to our networks and data centers. We believe PTP will become the global standard for keeping time in computer networks. PTP will benefit today’s products and services and will be a foundational technology behind the development… Continue reading PTP: Timing accuracy and precision for the future of computing
How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
Implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta allows us to synchronize the systems that drive our products and services down to nanosecond precision. PTP’s predecessor, Network Time Protocol (NTP), provided us with millisecond precision, but as we scale to more advanced systems on our way to building the next computing platform, the metaverse and AI,… Continue reading How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta
SRE Weekly Issue #348
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Move faster, wait less: Improving code review time at Meta
Code reviews are one of the most important parts of the software development process At Meta we’ve recognized the need to make code reviews as fast as possible without sacrificing quality We’re sharing several tools and steps we’ve taken at Meta to reduce the time waiting for code reviews When done well, code reviews can… Continue reading Move faster, wait less: Improving code review time at Meta