Category: Technology

Anyone who takes monitoring their services seriously knows that alerting is an important character in the monitoring saga. There is no point in collecting a huge amount of metrics if our teams won’t be notified when they breach. When a television show has a successful first season, sometimes you’ll notice it gets a makeover for… Continue reading Scaling an Alerting Service Using AWS Lambda Functions

Meta, in partnership with GlobeNet, has launched Malbec, a 2,500 km subsea cable that connects the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the future, it will also connect Porto Alegre, Brazil to Buenos Aires. The cable landing station based in Las Toninas, Province of Buenos Aires, is operated by GlobeNet’s subsidiary… Continue reading Malbec subsea cable connects Argentina and Brazil with the rest of the world

Ferret — Your local Environment Made Easy What’s the first thing you do when you get a new laptop? For many engineers, it’s setting up a good development environment, which is key for developing and troubleshooting effectively. Running a local environment helps to speed up the development process as well as improve collaboration. But nowadays, especially in microservices… Continue reading Ferret — Your local Environment made Easy

Open infrastructure technologies and networking hardware will play an important role as we build new technologies for the metaverse, where billions of people will someday come together in virtual spaces. As we head toward the next major computing platform with a continued spirit of embracing openness and disaggregation, we’re announcing two new milestones for our… Continue reading OCP Summit 2021: Open networking hardware lays the groundwork for the metaverse

APIs are an essential tool to allow partners, developers, and applications to consume, communicate ,or build on top of the various capabilities your microservices provide. Building a high quality API that can scale and perform with the business ecosystem is not easy and requires putting thought and planning into everything, from choosing an execution environment to… Continue reading The Journey of Building a Scalable API

The Problem In 2015, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (which was then called Demandware) was running a typical open source Grafana/Graphite/Carbon stack to store and visualize time series metrics of the Java application clusters powering our e-commerce business. Our JVM clusters at the time produced around 500k time series metrics per minute. Even though our organization needed us… Continue reading CarbonJ: A high performance, high-scale, drop-in replacement for carbon-cache and carbon-relay

What the research is:  Kangaroo is a new flash cache that enables more efficient caching of tiny objects (objects that are ~100 bytes or less) and overcomes the challenges presented by existing flash cache designs. Since Kangaroo is implemented within CacheLib, Facebook’s open source caching engine, developers can use Kangaroo through CacheLib’s API to build… Continue reading Kangaroo: A new flash cache optimized for tiny objects