An Introduction to the Serious Stack Behind Salesforce Developers

My Salesforce Developer Journey

I’ve been developing software for thirty-five years. In the late 2000s, I was a heads-down developer writing business applications for my customers with Microsoft technologies. A decade before that, I was working with early HTML, JavaScript, Java, ColdFusion, and Lotus Notes. And through the 1990s, I was building desktop database apps with FoxPro and Visual Basic.

About ten years ago, I was starting to burn out when I stumbled onto what was then known as Salesforce’s Force.com (now known as the Lightning Platform). It was like discovering new love. At that time, cloud computing had only just begun to catch on, and there were few platform services offering similar capabilities. None matched Salesforce’s scale, flexibility, depth, and breadth.

My Salesforce Developer Journey
I’ve been developing software for thirty-five years. In the late 2000s, I was a heads-down developer writing business applications for my customers with Microsoft technologies. A decade before that, I was working with early HTML, JavaScript, Java, ColdFusion, and Lotus Notes. And through the 1990s, I was building desktop database apps with FoxPro and Visual Basic.
About ten years ago, I was starting to burn out when I stumbled onto what was then known as Salesforce’s Force.com (now known as the Lightning Platform). It was like discovering new love. At that time, cloud computing had only just begun to catch on, and there were few platform services offering similar capabilities. None matched Salesforce’s scale, flexibility, depth, and breadth. […]