SRE Weekly Issue #375

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Curious how companies like Figma, Tripadvisor, and 100s of others leverage Rootly to manage incidents in Slack and unlock instant best practices? Check out this lightning demo: https://www.loom.com/share/051c4be0425a436e888dc0c3690855ad Articles How can you land 5 kilometers above the Moon? An in-depth analysis of the crash of a… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #375

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SRE Weekly Issue #374

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Rootly is hiring for a Sr. Developer Relations Advocate to continue helping more world-class companies like Figma, NVIDIA, Squarespace, accelerate their incident management journey. Looking for previous on-call engineers with a passion for making the world a more reliable place. Learn more: https://rootly.com/careers?gh_jid=4015888007 Articles More Memory,… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #374

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Automation at Scale: Migrating 200,000 Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

When a legacy operating system (OS) approaches its end-of-support date, some organizations will upgrade their OS as fast as possible. Others may kick the can down the road, delaying any headaches they might encounter during the upgrade process. Six years ago, Salesforce Engineering put the pedal to the metal, migrating to CentOS 7, an open-source… Continue reading Automation at Scale: Migrating 200,000 Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

Bombyx is being licensed for product development

When we first conceived of our aerial fiber deployment solution, Bombyx (the Latin name for a silk moth), we imagined a robot weaving strands of fiber-optic cables over powerlines, helping human workers quickly connect communities even in very rural or remote locations. Now, after years of successful research, Bombyx is taking the next steps in… Continue reading Bombyx is being licensed for product development

SRE Weekly Issue #373

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Rootly is hiring for a Sr. Developer Relations Advocate to continue helping more world-class companies like Figma, NVIDIA, Squarespace, accelerate their incident management journey. Looking for previous on-call engineers with a passion for making the world a more reliable place. Learn more: https://rootly.com/careers?gh_jid=4015888007 Articles 2023 03… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #373

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Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta

  We’re rolling out MySQL Raft with the aim to eventually replace our current MySQL semisynchronous databases.  The biggest win of MySQL Raft was simplification of the operation and making MySQL servers take care of promotions and membership. This gave the provable safety of Raft and reduced significant operational pain. Making MySQL server a true… Continue reading Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta

SRE Weekly Issue #372

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Rootly: Rootly is hiring for a Sr. Developer Relations Advocate to continue helping more world-class companies like Figma, NVIDIA, Squarespace, accelerate their incident management journey. Looking for previous on-call engineers with a passion for making the world a more reliable place. Learn more: https://rootly.com/careers?gh_jid=4015888007 Articles Read Every… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #372

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Automation Engineering Secrets Revealed: Slashing Customer Processing Time from Hours to Seconds

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. In this special edition, we meet Pratima Shukla, a software engineering manager based in Bangalore, India. In her role, Pratima leads Salesforce India’s Industries Cloud Public Sector Solution (PSS) team, where she is responsible for delivering cutting-edge… Continue reading Automation Engineering Secrets Revealed: Slashing Customer Processing Time from Hours to Seconds