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Authors: Savithru Lokanath, Arpeet Kale, Vaishnavigalgali Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a service under the Amazon Web Services (AWS) umbrella that provides managed Kubernetes service. It significantly reduces the time to deploy, manage, and scale the infrastructure required to run production-scale Kubernetes clusters. AWS has simplified EKS networking significantly with its container network interface (CNI)… Continue reading Optimizing EKS networking for scale

Introduction In 2016, I started as a fresh grad software engineer at a small startup called MetaMind, which was acquired by Salesforce. Since then, it has been quite a journey to achieve a lot with a small team. I’m part of Einstein Vision and Language Platform team. Our platform provides customers with the ability to… Continue reading Building a Successful Enterprise AI Platform

Introduction Spinnaker has been gaining popularity as a Continuous Deployment (CD) solution. It certainly offers many useful features supporting deployment pipelines including but not limited to access permission control, automatic and manual gated deployment configurations when moving from one phase to the next. Having said that, if you are operating a complex legacy CI/CD system,… Continue reading Journey to Spinnaker Deployment Orchestration

A woman sits looking at her laptop, the back of which is visible and covered with fun stickers. https://medium.com/media/94f300e0d534c7f86ea0f4309b634d57/href Engineer More Than Software at Salesforce was originally published in Salesforce Engineering on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Read More

We are announcing two vital new subsea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America.  These will be the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea and will increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent.   We are committed to bringing more people online to a faster internet. As part of… Continue reading Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific region and North America

The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 1 Phoenix is a relational database with a SQL interface that uses HBase as its backing store. This combination allows it to leverage the flexibility and scalability of HBase, which is a distributed key-value store. Phoenix provides additional functionality on top of HBase, including SQL… Continue reading The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 1

People upload hundreds of millions of videos to Facebook every day. Making sure every video is delivered at the best quality — with the highest resolution and as little buffering as possible — means optimizing not only when and how our video codecs compress and decompress videos for viewing, but also which codecs are used… Continue reading How Facebook encodes your videos

The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 2 In the first part of this blog, we described a solution for strongly consistent immutable secondary indexes. We extend this solution for mutable indexes here. By doing so, we provide a general solution for strongly consistent global secondary indexes. Mutable Indexes The mutable tables… Continue reading The Design of Strongly Consistent Global Secondary Indexes in Apache Phoenix — Part 2