Category: Technology

New optional features in WhatsApp have helped make calling on WhatsApp more secure. “Silence Unknown Callers” is a new setting on WhatsApp that not only quiets annoying calls but also blocks sophisticated cyber attacks. “Protect IP Address in Calls” is a new setting on WhatsApp that helps hide your location from other parties on the… Continue reading Enhancing the security of WhatsApp calls

By Vera Vetter, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Vera Vetter, Product Management Director for Salesforce AI Research and a co-Product Manager for Einstein for Flow, a game-changing AI product that is revolutionizing Salesforce workflow automation.… Continue reading Einstein for Flow: Bringing AI Innovation to the Next Generation of Automation

In about five short months, a small team of engineers at Meta took Threads, the new text-based conversations app, from from an idea to the most successful app launch of all time, pulling in over 100M users in its first five days. But this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without Meta’s existing systems and infrastructure.… Continue reading How Meta built Threads in 5 months

By Yogi Kapur and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Yogi Kapur, Senior Director of Salesforce’s Global Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). Based in Hyderabad, India, Yogi leads his cybersecurity analyst team in responding to countless alerts and containing malicious… Continue reading New Automation Tools: Stopping Hundreds of Future Threats Instantly

By Yogi Kapur and Scott Nyberg In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional journeys that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Yogi Kapur, Senior Director of Salesforce’s Global Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). Based in Hyderabad, India, Yogi leads his cybersecurity analyst team in responding to countless alerts and containing malicious… Continue reading New Automation Tools: Stopping Hundreds of Future Threats Instantly

Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing unused data types. SCARF scans production data systems to identify tables or assets that are unused and safely removes them. SCARF avoids tedious manual work and ensures that product data is correctly removed when a product is shut down. This… Continue reading Automating data removal