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Kevin Jones, who joins to talk about his open-source project ApexLink, is a Senior Architect in FinancialForce. Main Points Kevin’s self-introduction What is ApexLink, Kevin’s open source project? Is ApexLink similar to the PMD? Is ApexLink similar to the Illuminated Cloud? Why does Kevin use Scala language to create ApexLink? How does ApexLink work? Links Kevin’s Twitter Kevin’s personal blog ApexLink Github Repo ApexAssist VSCode extension Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL The post 67. ApexLink – Salesforce offline package linker (1) | Kevin Jones appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Buyan Thyagarajan, who joins to talk about Cloud Specialized Developer Career Path, is Salesforce MVP, specializing in Higher Education and Manufacturing. He is passionate about helping people start a Salesforce career. Main points Buyan’s self-introduction Buyan’s career advice to all developers  Buyan uses EDA/HEDA education cloud as an example Buyan uses manufacturing cloud as an example Why should Salesforce developers know the business side? Buyan uses the non-profit cloud as an example Links Buyan’s Twitter Buyan’s LinkedIn Buyan’s personal blog EDA Manufacturing cloud Non-profit cloud Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL The post 66. Cloud Specialized Developer Career Path | Buyan Thyagarajan appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Abhinav Gupta, who joins to talk about Future of Development on Salesforce 360 Platform, is a Salesforce Architect and Salesforce MVP, the Founder of Concretio Apps Company. Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Copado. Copado is the first Salesforce Delivery Management solution and the #1 native DevOps platform for Salesforce. Main Points Abhinav’s self-introduction The first-ever Virtual Dreamin’ event Discuss the Salesforce platform megatrend – low code The growing Salesforce marketplace for declarative tools, such as flows Salesforce customer 360 platform – more new Salesforce clouds are launching Discussion on the developer’s career path How do developers learn declarative tools? The post 65. Future of Development on Salesforce 360 Platform | Abhinav Gupta appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Vladimir Gerasimov, who joins to talk about the Salesforce Dependency API, is the Director of Product Management at Salesforce. Main Points Vladimir’s self-introduction Salesforce Dependency API is already in Open Beta as of the recording What is the Dependency API and what is the “where is it used” button? What meta-data types are supported in the Dependency API? How to use and query the dependency API? The open-source Dependencies-CLI plugin repository The dependency API Future roadmap Links Vladimir’s Twitter Dependency API Meta-data coverage report Learn MOAR – Dependency API SFDX Dependencies-cli plugin Vladimir’s Dependency API Webinar Video Teaser on Salesforce The post 64. Salesforce Dependency API | Vladimir Gerasimov appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Susannah St-Germain, who joins to talk about becoming a Salesforce Architect without IT background, is a Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Architect, 20 x certified, BostonSFDC Co-Lead, and RADWomenCode Coach. Sponsors: Main Points Susannah’s self-introduction, her role in the company and the CTA exam journey Why and how did Susannah slowly transition from the music to the IT field? How did Susannah make the switch from the admin role to the developer role? What is the right mindset to shift to a Salesforce technical role? Susannah also shares her experience on this point. How did Susannah change to a Salesforce technical architecture The post 63. From Non-tech to Salesforce Architect | Susannah St-Germain appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Jason Lantz, who joins to talk about CumulusCI – A Salesforce automation tool, is the Sr. Director, Release Engineering at Salesforce.org. Main Points Jason’s self-introduction Jason talks about what is CumulusCI What is the configuration layer in CumulusCI? The other three layers: key-chain, task, and flow layers How to understand CumulusCI from a beginner point of view? Does CumulusCI work for enterprise developers with repositories other than Github? Links Jason’s Twitter CumulusCI Github Repo CumulusCI document CumulusCI Trailhead Modules Video Teaser on CumulusCI The YouTube Video URL The post 62. CumulusCI Portable Automation| Jason Lantz appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Chris Peterson, who joins to talk about Apex language, is the Director of Product Management for Apex in Salesforce. Sponsors Main Points Is the Apex team currently working on the language expressiveness? Is it a good idea that Salesforce supports some good open-source libraries in the ecosystem? Is it valuable to build an Apex package management tool like npm for javascript? Shall Apex add features to distinguish various types of Apex tests, such as unit test, integration test, large volume data test, bulkification test, etc.?  Apex team’s working effort to have better meta-data coverage Chris’ tips on writing good Apex The post 61. All About Apex Language(2) | Chris Peterson appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Chris Peterson, who joins to talk about Apex language, is the Director of Product Management for Apex in Salesforce. Main Points What is the responsibility of Chris’ team? How does Chris and the team collect working items? Is the idea exchange a good channel for developers to submit wishes? How does the team implement, test, rollback new features? The internal hammer tool We talk about the story before and after the new Apex compiler, and what new features the new compiler brings to developers. What is the language server and how does it support LWC and Apex? Is a local The post 60. All About Apex Language(1) | Chris Peterson appeared first on SalesforceWay.

David Dixon, who joins to talk about the world of Salesforce Analytics, is Director of Analytics at Atrium.ai. David has 20 years of experience with every aspect of data, from database administration to data migration, integration, and analytics including Einstein AI.  Main Points What’s new in the analytics and AI space on Salesforce these days? How does Einstein Analytics fit together with Tableau? What are the basic skills you’ll need to get started with AI and data science? What can we expect for the future of analytics on Salesforce? Links David’s LinkedIn Profile Atrium.ai David’s Dreamforce Session on Tips and Tricks The post 59. Salesforce Analytics | David Dixon appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Pat McClellan, who joins to talk about AppExchange Solution, is a 4x Salesforce Certified Salesforce Developer, 2x Dreamforce Speaker, Lightning Champion, author of Proton Text App. Main Points Pat’s self-introduction and brief journey of creating the Proton Text App Why did Pat change his career path and now have a good motivation to be a Salesforce developer? Pat goes through the technical design and how the app was built 3 typical use cases that Salesforce users use text messages on the platform The text messaging app competition on AppExchange  How did Pat collect requirements? How big revenue does Pat have The post 58. Create AppExchange Solution From True Zero | Pat McClellan appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Kid Jansen, who joins to talk about how to prepare for Salesforce CTA, is 20x certified, Technical Architect, PluralSight Author, and active community contributor. Main Points Kid’s self-introduction Kid’s video presentation – Salesforce certifications What are CTA prerequisites in terms of certifications? When shall people start to prepare for CTA when prerequisites are done? What are the differences between growing into architect from admin, consultant or developer? The difference among types of working companies: small or big; consulting, ISV or customer. The process and the content of the CTA exam Once I decided to start, what are the tools to The post 57. Prepare for Salesforce CTA | Kid Jansen appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Gloria Ramchandani, who joins to talk about Surviving As a Remote Tech Employee, is Atlanta WIT UG Leader, Dreamforce Speaker, Product Manager at Copado. Main Points How long has Gloria been remote working for? Is there a difference between remote working and pandemic lockdown? How to keep working routines? Gloria’s tip to have kids involved in the working time The importance of physical boundaries  The challenge of working overtime The importance of small breaks How to keep and maintain the working energy? The requirements for hardware devices The social desire in remote working How does a company maintain the culture? The post 56. Surviving As a Remote Tech Employee | Gloria Ramchandani appeared first on SalesforceWay.

John Daniel, who joins to talk about Unit Of Work, is a Salesforce MVP, Technical Architecture, Open-source active contributor. John was on show #13, talked about Monolithic to Modular. Main Points John’s self-introduction The definition of UoW How does UoW handle DMLs in a transaction? What would happen if the DMLs in UoW fail partially? How does UoW make the code cleaner and more business-oriented? What to do when we find bugs when using the open-source libraries? What is the benefit to convince the team to use Apex Common library where UoW is included? Are there situations where multiple UoW The post 55. Unit Of Work Design Pattern | John Daniel appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Adam Olshansky, who joins to talk about trigger framework, is Salesforce MVP, Salesforce Engineer at Google, 14X Certified and Pluralsight Author. Main Points Adam’s self-introduction Adam’s Apex hours session – trigger framework Why do we need a trigger framework? How do we choose a suitable trigger framework?  Why would we choose a sophisticated object-oriented complex trigger framework? Difference between teams working in one single org and teams from consulting firms in terms of choosing a trigger framework The feature that helps avoid recursion The importance of communication between admins and developers Create your own tailored trigger framework Using custom metadata The post 54. All About Trigger Framework | Adam Olshansky appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Fabrice Cathala joins to talk about declarative for Salesforce developers. Fabrice is a Salesforce MVP, SF Dev Group leader, SaaS evangelist. Main Points Fabrice’s self-introduction Two types of solutions in Salesforces – enterprise solution and ISV managed package Using declaratives in managed packages Take into consideration that the platform is all the time evolving when building a solution Design a solution with declarative or coding Links Fabrice’s Twitter Fabrice’s LinkedIn Video Teaser The YouTube Video URL The post 53. Declarative For Salesforce Developers | Fabrice Cathala appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Daniel Ballinger joins to talk about his Parallel Unit Testing diagnosing story. Daniel is a Salesforce MVP, Senior Salesforce and .NET Developer and the author of tool SFDC Explorer. Main Points What is parallel unit testing? What is the default running mode in the Salesforce Platform? The troubleshooting story Daniel is telling about the parallel unit testing Links on Parallel Unit Testing Daniel’s Twitter Daniel’s LinkedIn Daniel’s blog post on Parallel Unit Testing Debug log parser and visualizer Daniel’s blog The post 52. Apex Parallel Unit Testing appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Ben McCarthy joins to talk about how to start a Salesforce consultancy. Ben is the Founder & Co-Editor of Salesforce Ben site and the Managing Director at EMPAUA. Main Points Ben’s self-introduction Ben’s prior working experience before How and when did Ben receive the managing director role of the UK in the company? The importance of industry focus The importance of engaging with Salesforce How to hire and keep talent in the company? Why does Ben think the company culture is the most important point for a successful consultancy? The difference between Intrapreneurs and building up a company from scratch? The post 51. Start A Salesforce Consultancy Firm appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Joey Chan, who joins to talk about contributing back to the Salesforce community, is ranking #1 in AppExchange developers, Philippines User Group Leader, Founder and Solutions Architect of Cloud Jedi Solutions Limited. Main Points Joey ranks 1st in AppExchange developer community Is Joey paid to contribute to the community? Why does Joey contribute while knowing it is unpaid work? What benefit did Joey receive in the first couple of years? Joey’s 5-year goal after college graduation and how did he achieved the goal How did Joey attract his first customer? How do Joey and his team work for the customers The post 50. Why You Should Also Contribute Back To The Salesforce Community? appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Ines Garcia joins to talk about Agile Software Development. Ines is a London-based Salesforce MVP, Agile Coach, Scrum Professional. Main Points Agile has the concept of continuous improvement and Kaizen, why is this so similar to DevOps? Is agile here to replace the waterfall model? What is agile, how to define it? Introduction about the agile card game developed by Ines Explanation about the four principles from Agile Manifestos Typical frameworks used in Agile Links Ines’ LinkedIn Ines’ Twitter Agile card game developed by Ines Agile Manifesto Video Teaser On Agile Software Development The YouTube Video URL Outro Music Dream The post 49. Agile Software Development appeared first on SalesforceWay.

Lorenzo Frattini, who joins to talk about Salesforce technical debt, is a London-based Salesforce CTA and the founder of Clayton, a code analysis SaaS that specializes in vulnerability scanning and code quality for Salesforce. Main Points Lorenzo’s self-introduction and his play-by-play video What is the content of the technical debt handbook released by Clayton? Why is it difficult to have technical debt under full control and what shall we developers do about it? Number 1 cause of technical debt – Test data factory – according to the handbook  Number 2 cause – dummy tests The risk factors for accumulating technical The post 48. Salesforce Technical Debt appeared first on SalesforceWay.