Category: Technology

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we delve into the remarkable journeys of engineering leaders who have made significant contributions in their respective fields. Today, we shine the spotlight on Zane Whitfield, a Member of the Technical Staff at Salesforce, supporting the Heroku Front-end Developer Tools (FDT) team. With a passion for enhancing the developer… Continue reading Inside Heroku’s New Performance Analytics Tool: Improving User Experiences and Developer Efficiency

By now you’re already aware that Python 3.12 has been released. But did you know that several of its new features were developed by Meta? Meta engineer Pascal Hartig (@passy) is joined on the Meta Tech Podcast by Itamar Oren and Carl Meyer, two software engineers at Meta, to discuss their teams’ contributions to the… Continue reading Meta loves Python

While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock synchronization as unicast PTPv2 more reliably and with fewer resources. In our own tests, SPTP boasts comparable performance to PTP, but with significant improvements in… Continue reading Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta

In our “Engineering Energizers” Q&A series, we examine the professional life experiences that have shaped Salesforce Engineering leaders. Meet Patrick Green, a Lead Member of the Technical Staff for Salesforce Engineering. Patrick supports the Project Sharing and Permissions (PSP) team at Tableau. Feature development plays a crucial role in their work, ensuring the smooth functioning… Continue reading Overcoming Complex Obstacles: Revealing Tableau’s Process for Creating New Features and Functionality

We’ve open sourced DotSlash, a tool that makes large executables available in source control with a negligible impact on repository size, thus avoiding I/O-heavy clone operations. With DotSlash, a set of platform-specific executables is replaced with a single script containing descriptors for the supported platforms. DotSlash handles transparently fetching, decompressing, and verifying the appropriate remote… Continue reading DotSlash: Simplified executable deployment

Slow build times and inefficiencies in packaging and distributing execution files were costing our ML/AI engineers a significant amount of time while working on our training stack. By addressing these issues head-on, we were able to reduce this overhead by double-digit percentages.  In the fast-paced world of AI/ML development, it’s crucial to ensure that our… Continue reading Improving machine learning iteration speed with faster application build and packaging