View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Signals is now available in beta. Sign up to experience the difference: Page teams, not services. Ingest inputs from any source. Bucket pricing based on usage. And one platform — ring to retro — finally. https://firehydrant.com/blog/signals-beta-live/ Introducing Service Level Calculator Wow, this interactive tool for choosing… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #402
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Building end-to-end security for Messenger
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our Messenger end-to-end encryption whitepaper describes the core cryptographic protocol for transmitting messages between clients. The Labyrinth encrypted storage protocol whitepaper explains our protocol for end-to-end encrypting stored… Continue reading Building end-to-end security for Messenger
Explaining Salesforce’s Large-Scale Migration to Git: How We Enhanced Developer Productivity
By Patrick Calahan and Scott Nyberg As new developer productivity technologies emerge, small and nimble enterprises with newer codebases swiftly embrace innovation. Conversely, larger organizations, rooted in larger and aging codebases, face obstacles replacing legacy technologies. Salesforce faced such a challenge with its primary Source Code Management (SCM) system. For nearly two decades, the codebase… Continue reading Explaining Salesforce’s Large-Scale Migration to Git: How We Enhanced Developer Productivity
SRE Weekly Issue #401
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Join FireHydrant Dec.14 for a conversation about on-call culture and its effect on engineering organizations, featuring special guests from Outreach and Udemy. Gain a better understanding of what makes excellent on-call culture and how to implement practices to improve yours. https://app.livestorm.co/firehydrant/better-incidents-winter-bonfire-inside-on-call?type=detailed A Few Words About Blameless… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #401
SRE Weekly Issue #400
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: How is FireHydrant building its alerting tool, Signals, to be robust, lightning-fast, and configurable to how YOU work? In this edition, of their Captain’s Log, they dive into CEL and how they’re using it to handle routing and logic. https://firehydrant.com/blog/captains-log-how-were-leveraging-cel/ A guide to Managing the First… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #400
Writing and linting Python at scale
Python plays a big part at Meta. It powers Instagram’s backend and plays an important role in our configuration systems, as well as much of our AI work. Meta even made contributions to Python 3.12, the latest version of Python. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined by Amethyst… Continue reading Writing and linting Python at scale
Indian Women in Tech: 7 Key Strategies for Elevating Your Salesforce Career
By Lata Valluri While women comprise 36% of India’s IT workforce — a 100% increase since 2013 — they only hold 25% of managerial positions, with less than 1% in C-Suite positions. I am focused on improving this inequality. As a Director that focuses on leadership development in India, I created the Rise program in… Continue reading Indian Women in Tech: 7 Key Strategies for Elevating Your Salesforce Career
SRE Weekly Issue #399
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, FireHydrant: Severity levels help responders and stakeholders understand the incident impact and set expectations for the level of response. This can mean jumping into action faster. But first, you have to ensure severity is actually being set. Here’s one way. https://firehydrant.com/blog/incident-severity-why-you-need-it-and-how-to-ensure-its-set/ Paper: How in the World Did… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #399
Watch: Meta’s engineers on building network infrastructure for AI
Meta is building for the future of AI at every level – from hardware like MTIA v1, Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator to publicly released models like Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation large language model, as well as new generative AI (GenAI) tools like Code Llama. Delivering next-generation AI products and services at Meta’s scale also… Continue reading Watch: Meta’s engineers on building network infrastructure for AI
Future-Driven Dev Empowerment: Slack SVP Tackles New AI and Automation Challenges Head-On
By Rukmini Reddy and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Rukmini Reddy, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering for the Slack platform. Her team’s goal is to empower developers, enhance productivity, and push the envelope of AI and automation innovation at… Continue reading Future-Driven Dev Empowerment: Slack SVP Tackles New AI and Automation Challenges Head-On