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Introduction Spinnaker has been gaining popularity as a Continuous Deployment (CD) solution. It certainly offers many useful features supporting deployment pipelines including but not limited to access permission control, automatic and manual gated deployment configurations when moving from one phase to the next. Having said that, if you are operating a complex legacy CI/CD system,… Continue reading Journey to Spinnaker Deployment Orchestration

Introduction In 2016, I started as a fresh grad software engineer at a small startup called MetaMind, which was acquired by Salesforce. Since then, it has been quite a journey to achieve a lot with a small team. I’m part of Einstein Vision and Language Platform team. Our platform provides customers with the ability to… Continue reading Building a Successful Enterprise AI Platform

Authors: Savithru Lokanath, Arpeet Kale, Vaishnavigalgali Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a service under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) umbrella that provides managed Kubernetes service. It significantly reduces the time to deploy, manage, and scale the infrastructure required to run production-scale Kubernetes clusters. AWS has simplified EKS networking significantly with its container network interface (CNI)… Continue reading Optimizing EKS networking for scale

The first part of this two part blog provided an introduction to concepts in Kubernetes and Public Cloud that are relevant to stateful application management. We also covered how Kubernetes and Hadoop features were leveraged to provide a highly available service. In this second part of the blog we will cover some of the shortcomings… Continue reading Hadoop/HBase on Kubernetes and Public Cloud (Part II)

Authors: Dhiraj Hegde, Ashutosh Parekh, and Prashant Murthy At Salesforce, we run a large number of HBase and HDFS clusters in our own data centers. More recently, we have started deploying our clusters on Public Cloud infrastructure to take advantage of the on-demand scalability available there. As part of this foray onto the public cloud, we… Continue reading Hadoop/HBase on Kubernetes and Public Cloud (Part I)

We all know that AI is here and it’s quickly changing our lives. However, the impacts of AI are unevenly distributed and it favors those with “more data,” leaving those with “few data” behind. This runs counter to our Salesforce core values of Customer Success and Equality, so we set out to change things. “Einstein Reply… Continue reading AI Research to Production with Einstein Reply Recommendations

One year ago we started the FOSS Fund at Salesforce. We were inspired by our friends at Indeed to give $10,000 every quarter to a project voted on by our open source contributors. We just finished our fourth and final round for the year and the winner is Prettier! Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.… Continue reading FOSS Fund Brings More than Just Financial Contributions