Daniel Ballinger is the Director of Product Management for Apex. In his role, he spends the majority of his time balancing options and making decisions about what problems his team should pursue and which they can afford to wait on.

 

There are plenty of exciting things on the Apex roadmap for Daniel and his team right now. In this episode, we discuss some of these updates, including Data Wave and user mode database operations. Tune in to learn all about these new features and when you can expect to see them rolled out.

 

Show Highlights:

 

• Daniel’s earliest experiences modding maps.
• His earliest opinions on Apex.
• What it takes to break something at Salesforce.
• How Daniel and his team promote scalability, growth, and performance with transparency.
• How Apex users can make Daniel’s job easier.
• What Data Wave is and how to use it.
• How big of a difference Data Wave makes in doing CSV to JSON operations.
• What user mode database operations are and their benefits.
• How to switch between safe mode and system mode.
• The timeline for these Apex updates.

 

Links:

• Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FishOfPrey
• Daniel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielballinger/
• Daniel on Github: https://github.com/FishOfPrey
• Daniel's Blog: https://www.fishofprey.com/
• Information on the pilot programs: https://sforce.co/df21-dev-apex