Category: Technology

What the research is: Jump-Start is a new approach for improving the performance of virtual machines at scale. Virtual machines are a modern and popular design to implement programming languages used to build applications in general, including large-scale websites like Facebook and Instagram. However, virtual machines incur well-known performance overhead in terms of the amount… Continue reading Boosting the performance of virtual machines with Jump-Start

What is a Sandbox? A Sandbox is an isolated environment where you can safely experiment and test changes that you intend to apply to your live environment. The idea is to learn about the implications of these intended changes in advance, in order to decide on how to best conduct them, without actually causing any harm… Continue reading A Peek at Datorama’s Virtual Sandbox

Authors: Vaishnavi Galgali, Savithru Lokanath, Arpeet Kale Introduction All services in the Einstein Vision and Language Platform use TLS/SSL certificates to encrypt communication between microservices. The certificates are generated in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and stored in the AWS Secrets Manager in the form of keystores and truststores (private and public keys). Certificate creation can be… Continue reading Notary: A Certificate Lifecycle Management Controller for Kubernetes

One year ago we started the FOSS Fund at Salesforce. We were inspired by our friends at Indeed to give $10,000 every quarter to a project voted on by our open source contributors. We just finished our fourth and final round for the year and the winner is Prettier! Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.… Continue reading FOSS Fund Brings More than Just Financial Contributions

We all know that AI is here and it’s quickly changing our lives. However, the impacts of AI are unevenly distributed and it favors those with “more data,” leaving those with “few data” behind. This runs counter to our Salesforce core values of Customer Success and Equality, so we set out to change things. “Einstein Reply… Continue reading AI Research to Production with Einstein Reply Recommendations

Authors: Dhiraj Hegde, Ashutosh Parekh, and Prashant Murthy At Salesforce, we run a large number of HBase and HDFS clusters in our own data centers. More recently, we have started deploying our clusters on Public Cloud infrastructure to take advantage of the on-demand scalability available there. As part of this foray onto the public cloud, we… Continue reading Hadoop/HBase on Kubernetes and Public Cloud (Part I)

The first part of this two part blog provided an introduction to concepts in Kubernetes and Public Cloud that are relevant to stateful application management. We also covered how Kubernetes and Hadoop features were leveraged to provide a highly available service. In this second part of the blog we will cover some of the shortcomings… Continue reading Hadoop/HBase on Kubernetes and Public Cloud (Part II)