Embracing Mutable Big Data

Summary Salesforce Activity Platform (AP) ingests, stores, and serves user’s activity data as time-sorted data sets. The accumulated data maintained by Activity Platform appears to be time-series big data. Even so, due to application requirements, the data stores for activity records need capabilities from OLTP style databases. Managing mutable big data is very different from managing immutable… Continue reading Embracing Mutable Big Data

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SRE Weekly Issue #309

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 (+ get a snazzy Rootly shirt): https://rootly.com/demo/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles What we talk about when… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #309

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SRE Weekly Issue #308

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 (+ get a snazzy Rootly shirt): https://rootly.com/demo/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles Retrospective and Technical Details on… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #308

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READS: Service Health Metrics

As you scale your company’s software footprint, with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or microservices architecture featuring 100s or 1000s of services or more, how do you keep track of the performance of every service in every region? How will you know whether you are tracking every service? Of course every service is different, but how do… Continue reading READS: Service Health Metrics

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READS: Service Health Metrics

As you scale your company’s software footprint, with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or microservices architecture featuring 100s or 1000s of services or more, how do you keep track of the performance of every service in every region? How will you know whether you are tracking every service? Of course every service is different, but how do… Continue reading READS: Service Health Metrics

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Behind the Scenes of Hyperforce: Salesforce’s Infrastructure for the Public Cloud

Salesforce has been running cloud infrastructure for over two decades, bringing companies and their customers together. When Salesforce first started out in 1999, the world was very different; back then, the only practical way to provide our brand of Software-As-A-Service was to run everything yourself — not just the software, but the servers, storage, networking devices, cooling, etc.… Continue reading Behind the Scenes of Hyperforce: Salesforce’s Infrastructure for the Public Cloud

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SRE Weekly Issue #307

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 (+ get a snazzy Rootly shirt): https://rootly.com/demo/?utm_source=sreweekly Articles Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #307

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Scaling cross-team contributions to a native mobile app

By Stephen Goldberg, Alex Sikora, and Jean Bovet Flagship applications are home to myriad functionalities that serve different parts of your userbase. Often, adding a new feature unintentionally causes reduced velocity, single points of failure, and monoliths that are hard to navigate. Such flagship apps are built from contributions from multiple teams each with varying degrees… Continue reading Scaling cross-team contributions to a native mobile app

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