Connor Thorsen had just moved to San Francisco to start his new full-time role at Salesforce when the pandemic called many employees back home. A former two-time summer intern with Salesforce Commerce Cloud in Massachusetts, Connor was hired as a software engineer on the Security UI team to build internal services and websites for the… Continue reading Connor Thorsen’s Trip of a Lifetime
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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
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
Detecting Multithreaded Exfiltration in Zeek
Detecting Multithreaded Exfiltration in Zeek In a stereotypical heist, the thief’s “grab-and-go” plan often takes one of two forms. In the first, the thief grabs all they can and makes a loud and fast exit with explosives visible from miles away. In the second, the thief slowly and quietly amasses a fortune by stealing a… Continue reading Detecting Multithreaded Exfiltration in Zeek
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
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
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
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
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
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