Salesforce Developer Podcast

In this episode, Rupesh Bhatia and I talk about his various experiences in web development. As a Specialist Master, he has worked with many developers and consultants and has a lot of career advice for us. He also shares how to have a consultant mindset.

Rupesh wasn’t always destined to be a programmer. Having grown up in a barber’s family, he eventually fell into web development. Tune in to hear all about his career journey and current expertise in the field.

Show Highlights:

• What D2C (or developer to consultant) is.
• What’s involved in the presale cycle and why that’s important to a developer.
• Tips for developers interacting with tech leads and technical architects.
• Advice for people working with clients and communicating back to offshore people.
• How to document the information you receive from clients.
• How to make sure the escalation process goes smoothly as an offshore developer.
• How to navigate the challenges that come up with language and culture barriers.

Links:

1. Rupesh on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/RupeshBhatia85
2. Rupesh on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupesh-bhatia/

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.

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In this episode, Jennifer Lee and I talk about her experiences as a Lead Solution Designer at John Hancock. There are a lot of considerations when it comes to adding Flow into Salesforce applications and today, Jennifer helps us navigate through the different kinds of Flow and relevant use cases for them.

Jennifer is also one of the most ardent fans of Trailhead. Tune in to hear her experience with that program and her insight on all the different aspects of Flow. 

Show Highlights:

• How Flow fits into application design.
• A description of Flow from a technical point of view.
• The different high-level ways we can invoke a flow.
• When to use screen flows, when to use Lightning Web Components, and when to use both.
• What unofficial SF is and how it’s useful.
• Good use cases for flows triggered by record actions, flows triggered by platform events, and scheduled flows.
• UI interactions that can kick off a flow.

Links

1. Jennifer on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jenwlee
2. Jennifer on LinkedInt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejenniferwlee/
3. Jennifer’s blog: Jenwlee.com
4. Automation Hour: AutomationHour.com
5. UnofficialSF: UnofficialSF.com
6. NorthEast Dreamin’: https://northeastdreamin.com/
7. Architect Decision Guides: https://sforce.co/arch-guide-clicks-code
8. Guide on Forms: https://sforce.co/forms-arch-guide
9. Guide on Triggered Automation: https://sforce.co/trigger-arch-guide

Shout Outs

1. Charlie Isaacs: https://twitter.com/charlieisaacs
2. Rakesh Gupta: https://twitter.com/rakeshistom
3. David Litton: https://salesforcesidekick.com/aboutme/

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In this episode, Andrew Davis and I talk all about DevOps. A Senior Director of Product Marketing at Copado, Andrew helps us go beyond thinking about it as tools or lifecycle management to viewing it as a philosophy. DevOps is really a way of approaching the process of work and thinking about the development lifestyle.  

During his time at Copado, Andrew has had the opportunity to learn a lot of customer stories. 

Tune in to leverage his experience when it comes to tips, tricks and strategies on having a more efficient and positive development experience with the Salesforce Platform.

Show Highlights:

• Andrew’s definition of DevOps.
• What the three ways of DevOps are and how they’re important beyond a technical level.
• The key metrics that prove how effective DevOps is.
• What Lean is and how it plays into DevOps.
• How failure works into the continuous flow of this philosophy.
• How a blameless post-mortem works.
• A description of some of the Trailhead content centered around Copado.

Links:

1. Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewDavis_io
2. Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdavis-io/
3. Mastering Salesforce DevOps (book): https://go.copado.com/devops-book
4. Salesforce DevOps with Copado Badge: https://go.copado.com/badge1
5. Continuous Innovation with Copado Badge: https://go.copado.com/badge2
6. Copado Virtual Learning Center: https://go.copado.com/learning-center

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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The role of the Architect Evangelist at Salesforce is to inspire and empower. In general, the architect is the most trusted digital advisor and technical influencer in the ecosystem. Because of this, the person in this role must always be looking for ways to engage with architects. He has to help them understand how to use our products and if they’ll be successful using them.

As an Architect Evangelist, Marc leverages his experience with Salesforce to help people learn best practices and make wise decisions with technical architecture. In this episode, we’re talking about the recently developed team and cover some of the team’s early content - especially the very popular Decision Guides.  We also lean on Marc’s lengthy experience dealing with technical debt.  

Tune in to learn more about what he does and how he can help you.

Show Highlights:

• What decision guides are and how they put them out there.
• How to know if you’re using a Process Builder in the right way.
• The limitations of a Lightning Web Component.
• The future of Decision Guides.
• What technical debt is and the common symptoms of it.

Links

1. Marc on Twitter: @mlbrag
2. Marc on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcbraga/
3. Salesforce Architects LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/salesforce-architects/
4. Salesforce Architects Blog: https://medium.com/salesforce-architects
5. Architect Decision Guides Post: https://medium.com/salesforce-architects/introducing-architect-decision-guides-609ae5d7b5da
6. Tech Debt Webinar Recording: http://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/nhSDFZB7RmxUTNdSQq4sEp
7. Tech Debt Webinar PDF: https://org62.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/000000000062/a/0M000000QpLL/YlKxYEEvSMxcT0fxLzPF.HxVRF3Gnw5XV_KXY_2IbA8

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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The whole point of software as a service is to allow our customers to not have to worry about all of the ins and outs of a program’s workings. Thanks to this, there are many things that Salesforce customers simply never need to worry about. We make sure everything works so that they experience no interruption.

Multitenant architecture is a program that allows Salesforce to accomplish just this. Ian Varley is a Principal Architect here at Salesforce and he has been working on this program for the last 10 years. Beyond software engineering, Ian has also earned degrees in philosophy and music. In this episode, we discuss multitenant architecture and all of its facets.

Show Highlights:

• The core idea of what multi-tenancy is.
• How we can architecturally define the tenant.
• How to go about grouping the kinds of services that operate with multi-tenancy.
• The complicated world of microservices.
• How acquisitions look and work together within Salesforce.
• What the application Salesforce core looks like.
• How metadata works from a physical database layer point of view.
• Why awareness of cognitive bias is important to this field of work.

Links

1. Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefutureian
2. Ian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianvarley/
3. Brains Considered Harmful: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/oreilly-software-architecture/9781492050605/video325607.html

Shout Out

1. Steven Tamm: https://twitter.com/tammforce

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If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Amy Oplinger-Singh is a senior Salesforce consultant with The Crevalle Group and the leader of the Akron WIT group. She is also a speaker who talks to her audiences about imposter syndrome. When she first brought her knowledge to the stage, she realized she was experiencing imposter syndrome about imposter syndrome. Since then, she has received support and community that has helped her overcome her fears.

Today, we talk all about this topic. Imposter syndrome is widespread within the technical community. It’s a common denominator for many within this ecosystem. Amy and I discuss what it is, how to identify it, and what to do about it.

Show Highlights:

• The indicators that show we have fallen prey to imposter syndrome.
• Coping mechanisms that can help us overcome imposter syndrome.
• The hesitancy of many to call themselves technical people.
• How the fear of failure plays into this.
• Amy’s definition of the fear of success.
• How imposter syndrome affects the people around us.

Links

1. Amy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SalesforceAmy
2. Amy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoplinger/
3. Amy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SalesforceAmy

Virtual Trailblazer Events/Meetups: https://salesforce.quip.com/7MtlAuTv14ya

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Gigi Zanolli is a developer advocate and her mission is to enable Tableau’s developers to be successful in their usage of our APIs and developer tools. Before moving to Seattle, she helped customers all around EMEA with their Tableau adoption. Prior to that, she worked in IT management and completed a double masters in information systems and computer science. Originally from Mauritius, Gigi decided to trade sunny days for new adventures in Europe and now the US.

Today, I’m sitting down to talk with Gigi about her early days, what she’s currently working on at Tableau, e-learning opportunities, and what’s coming soon.  

Show Highlights:

• The mission statement for Tableau.
• The skills required to get into data development.
• The APIs Tableau offers.
• Examples of what people have built using Tableau.
• The developer environments that Tableau offers.
• The history of the Lightning Web Component that allows Tableau to be embedded in Salesforce.

Links

1. Gigi on Twitter: http://twitter.com/illonage
2. Gigi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gzanolli/
3. Gigi on Github: http://github.com/illonage
4. Tableau Developer Program: http://tabsoft.co/SFDevPodcast
5. Tableau on Trailhead: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/the-tableau-workflow
6. Play Super Mario in Tableau: https://infotopics.nl/blog/mario-in-tableau-using-tableau-extensions/

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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John Daniel is a Salesforce architect for the B3 group. Even before working with Salesforce, he had encountered programs that had constant issues and technical debt. He found that Salesforce projects brought unique challenges when it comes to designing at the org level and maintaining properly divided applications that respect a separation of concerns. 

John was also part of the group of developers who brought about the first-ever Salesforce DX implementations. Today, we’re talking about his experiences using Salesforce DX for technical architecture. 

Show Highlights:

• What happy soup is and why it’s a favorite among the Salesforce community.
• What vertical slicing the next phase, horizontal slicing, are.
• John’s styles and suggestions for naming apex classes, Visualforce pages, and lightning web components.
• How he handles things that are dependent upon each other.
• How functional aspects play into the declarative side of the veil.
• What the open-source group is and what it does.

Links

1. Twitter account: @ImJohnMDaniel
2. Linkedin account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjohnmdaniel/
3. Github account: https://github.com/ImJohnMDaniel/
4. Apex Enterprise Patterns: https://github.com/apex-enterprise-patterns

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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Thomas Dvornik is a principal member of the technical staff here at Salesforce. He has always known that he wanted to work with computers in some way, but had a hard time choosing between computer graphics and computer science. Ultimately, he came to choose the math side of things, which brought him to Salesforce.

In the episode, Thomas and I talk about his long career working on developer tooling at Salesforce. He has seen the Developer Console morph into its current form and talks about how it and the Tooling API influenced each other.  We also talk about the role of the upcoming Code Builder and how the layering with the Salesforce CLI works. Tune in to learn all about the Salesforce hierarchy of tools has been built out for Salesforce DX.

Show Highlights:

• How the old school developer console worked as a reference application for the tooling API.
• How the tooling API works, including how containers function.
• The shift that started with the Salesforce DX initiative.
• How the CLI interacts when it comes to the tooling vs. metadata API.
• The functionality and power that plugins can bring.
• How the concept of going open source plays into the overall strategy for the CLI.
• Some of the challenges that come with moving the CLI into open source.
• What’s next on the Salesforce roadmap.

Links

1. Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amphro
2. Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasdvornik/
3. Thomas on Github: https://github.com/amphro
4. Thomas's talk on Salesforce DX productivity: https://www.salesforce.com/video/1111044/
5. Shane's plugin library: https://github.com/mshanemc/shane-sfdx-plugins

Shout Outs:

Shane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MShaneMc

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

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David Liu is a Salesforce technical architect at Google. He began his career as a Salesforce developer and ended up at Google in his dream job. Throughout his career, he’s learned a lot about success and what it actually looks like. He’s also helped many others through the interview process.

In this episode, David shares his story with us. He reveals his failures and how they brought him to where he is today. He also gives a peek behind the curtain into Salesforce careers. Listen in to hear his unique insights.

Show Highlights:

• How to frame questions to discover how people are thinking about their job.
• The things he looks for in the people he interviews.
• What his website, Salesforce for the 99%, means.
• The importance of targeting a really small niche in marketing.
• How to frame technical content for non-technical people.
• His encounters with imposter syndrome.
• The role of failure in coming through a career.

Links

1. David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dvdkliu
2. David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvdkliu/
3. sfdc99: https://www.sfdc99.com/

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EPISODE CREDITS:

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.

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