What if we told you that there was a way to dramatically reduce the cost to operate on cloud providers? That’s what we found when we dug into the different data structures offered in Redis. Before we committed to one, we did some research into the difference in memory usage between using HASH versus using… Continue reading Using Redis HASH instead of SET to reduce cache size and operating costs
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Applying the Micro Batching Pattern to Data Transfer
Building consistent data replicas If you have worked on data-rich software systems, chances are you have worked with a distributed architecture where one part of your system needs access to data owned by another part of the system. Whether that architecture is a modern distributed microservices architecture or a set of stand-alone applications looking to exchange… Continue reading Applying the Micro Batching Pattern to Data Transfer
SRE Weekly Issue #299
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging the right team, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. Book a demo:https://rootly.com/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles More More More! Why the Most Resilient Companies Want More Incidents Lacking… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #299
Restriction Rules
Restriction Rules: Complementing Salesforce’s Record Access Control Mechanism Introduction If you’ve taken Salesforce Admin 201 training, you might remember learning about Sharing Settings. Sharing Settings include Sharing Models, Criteria Sharing Rules, Manual Sharing, and more. I’m a software engineer on the Record Access Experience team here at Salesforce. When I took this training in 2017,… Continue reading Restriction Rules
SRE Weekly Issue #298
View on sreweekly.com Email subscribers, my apologies for the double-send last week. I upgraded WordPress and subsequently further cemented my distrust of all version upgrades ever. I carefully tested a fix in staging before rolling it out gradually in preparation for this week’s issue. Just kidding, I hacked on it live until I got it… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #298
SRE Weekly Issue #297
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging the right team, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. Book a demo:https://rootly.com/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles Avoid frostbite: Stop doing code freezes It’s that time of year again,… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #297
Measuring the Memory Impact for Hybrid Apps
Memory problems are always challenging to detect and fix for mobile applications, particularly on Android, due to many hardware profiles, OS versions, and OEM skins. With proper memory reporting and analysis, most issues are caught during the development lifecycle. Yet if your application is delivering an entire platform, such as the Salesforce Mobile App, the… Continue reading Measuring the Memory Impact for Hybrid Apps
Scaling an Alerting Service Using AWS Lambda Functions
Anyone who takes monitoring their services seriously knows that alerting is an important character in the monitoring saga. There is no point in collecting a huge amount of metrics if our teams won’t be notified when they breach. When a television show has a successful first season, sometimes you’ll notice it gets a makeover for… Continue reading Scaling an Alerting Service Using AWS Lambda Functions
SRE Weekly Issue #296
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Manage incidents directly from Slack with Rootly 🚒. Automate manual admin tasks like creating incident channel, Jira and Zoom, paging the right team, postmortem timeline, setting up reminders, and more. Book a demo: https://rootly.com/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles Do you remember, the twenty fires of September? WOW! This is… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #296
Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world
Meta, in partnership with GlobeNet, has launched Malbec, a 2,500 km subsea cable that connects the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the future, it will also connect Porto Alegre, Brazil to Buenos Aires. The cable landing station based in Las Toninas, Province of Buenos Aires, is operated by GlobeNet’s subsidiary… Continue reading Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world