Category: Technology

We’re tackling the industry-wide issue of scraping by expanding our bug bounty program to reward valid reports of scraping bugs and unprotected data sets. To the best of our knowledge, this is an industry first.  Looking toward the future, we’re also launching new educational opportunities for researchers and hosting our first BountyConEDU — a three-day… Continue reading Charting the future of our bug bounty program

To support the people and communities who use our apps and products, we need to stay in constant contact with them. We want to provide the experiences we offer reliably. We also need to establish trust with the larger community we support. This can be especially challenging in a large-scale, quickly evolving environment like Meta,… Continue reading SLICK: Adopting SLOs for improved reliability

What if we told you that there was a way to dramatically reduce the cost to operate on cloud providers? That’s what we found when we dug into the different data structures offered in Redis. Before we committed to one, we did some research into the difference in memory usage between using HASH versus using… Continue reading Using Redis HASH instead of SET to reduce cache size and operating costs

Building consistent data replicas If you have worked on data-rich software systems, chances are you have worked with a distributed architecture where one part of your system needs access to data owned by another part of the system. Whether that architecture is a modern distributed microservices architecture or a set of stand-alone applications looking to exchange… Continue reading Applying the Micro Batching Pattern to Data Transfer

Restriction Rules: Complementing Salesforce’s Record Access Control Mechanism Introduction If you’ve taken Salesforce Admin 201 training, you might remember learning about Sharing Settings. Sharing Settings include Sharing Models, Criteria Sharing Rules, Manual Sharing, and more. I’m a software engineer on the Record Access Experience team here at Salesforce. When I took this training in 2017,… Continue reading Restriction Rules

Memory problems are always challenging to detect and fix for mobile applications, particularly on Android, due to many hardware profiles, OS versions, and OEM skins. With proper memory reporting and analysis, most issues are caught during the development lifecycle. Yet if your application is delivering an entire platform, such as the Salesforce Mobile App, the… Continue reading Measuring the Memory Impact for Hybrid Apps