In this episode, we discuss vaccine cloud, GPT-3 sql generation, glassmorphism, Salesforce's developer survey, and Spring '21 release notes.

Links:

• Salesforce Developer Survey
• Automating My Job with GPT-3
• Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff to Participate in World Economic Forum Davos Agenda 2021
• Glassmorphism in user interfaces. Another year, another UI trend is… | by Michal Malewicz | UX Collective
• Salesforce Announces Vaccine Cloud to Accelerate Global Vaccine Management - Salesforce News
• #6 The Crusade Against Custom Declarative Languages and Meta-Bike-Shedding by Happy Path Programming • A podcast on Anchor
• Learning Resources for the Kotlin Programming Language
• Salesforce Spring ’21 Release Notes

In this episode, we discuss Wade Wegner's farewell to Salesforce, Sarah Franklin's promotion to CMO, recent acquisitions by Komodo and IBM, and a Zoom etiquette rant from Jeremy.

Links:

• Salesforce Says Goodbye to CMO Stephanie Buscemi, Elevates Platform Manager to the Role
• Mahalo a Aloha, Salesforce - Wade Wegner
• Komodo Health acquires Mavens to create healthcare enterprise platform | Healthcare IT News
• IBM acquires Salesforce consultancy 7Summits (NYSE:IBM) | Seeking Alpha
• Skills Apple is looking for as it hires for many open cloud roles - Business Insider
• Programmer locked out of bitcoin wallet, forgot password - Business Insider

In this episode, we review our 2019 predictions for 2020 and make new predictions for 2021.

Links:

• The Information’s Techodus List

In this episode, we are joined by Stephan Chandler-Garcia to discuss the latest developer-centric announcements from the DreamTX event.

Special Guest: Stephan Chandler-Garcia.

Links:

• Sessions

In this episode, we discuss Salesforce's acquisition of Slack.

Links:

• Slackforce and the Beginning of the End of SaaS Sprawl – Platformonomics
• Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release | by Paul Ford | Dec, 2020 | Medium
• Salesforce (CRM) To Buy Slack (WORK) for $27.7 Billion - Bloomberg
• Slack CEO Downplays Microsoft as Factor in Salesforce Deal — The Information
• Salesforce’s Bret Taylor: Company Didn’t Overpay for Slack — The Information

In this relatively brief episode, we discuss the performance of the new Apple M1 Macbooks, Larry Ellison's comments on new marketing tools, and an update on Jeremy's homebrew setup.

Links:

• How Local Development Is Dying and Why it's For the Better | Hacker Noon
• Chairman Larry Ellison Wants It All—Can Oracle Get It?
• The Future of CX, Featuring Larry Ellison - YouTube

In this episode, we discuss Microsoft's partnership with Adobe and C3, GitHub source code leak, a new CEO tax in San Francisco, and the unintended consequences of certifications and the H1B system.

Links:

• Microsoft Teams With Adobe and C3.ai to Take on Salesforce on Its Home Turf - Bloomberg
• SF voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets inequality | CalMatters
• GitHub’s source code was leaked on GitHub last night… sort of | Ars Technica

In this episode, we listen to and share our thoughts on several topics from clips sourced from various technology related podcasts.

In this episode, we discuss Tableau CRM, Otka, Work.com, reliance on automation, architecture and solution design, and the community thread on what you would do to not mess up a new Salesforce Org.

Links:

• Tableau and Einstein Analytics Come Together to Drive Analytics Ubiquity
• Okta and Salesforce Partner to Build Trust with Work.com | Seeking Alpha

Note, this is not one of our traditional shows. It is our first remote recording since the pandemic from our favorite bar, and things get candid. We barely talk Salesforce. John curses while Jeremy tries to keep the show on track. It might even be our last show...who knows. Listen at your own discretion.

Links:

• Developer Quick Takes - YouTube
• Maximize Your Return on Experience With Experience Cloud - Salesforce Blog
• Introducing a new way to bring Tableau analytics into Salesforce | Tableau Software
• Jeff Bezos opening tuition-free preschools for underserved kids - Business Insider
• Starting Up: Reed Hastings on Netflix's unorthodox management strategy - Business Insider
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention: Hastings, Reed, Meyer, Erin: 9781984877864: Amazon.com: Books
• Chris Peterson on Twitter: "Request for comment: people keep using Apex collections that contain null or empty string as bind variables in queries by accident, causing perf problems. I'm struggling to think of a good solution. Anybody have novel ideas?" / Twitter