041: Salesforce Hierarchy of Tools with Thomas Dvornik

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the old school developer console worked as a reference application for the tooling API.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the tooling API works, including how containers function.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The shift that started with the Salesforce DX initiative.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the CLI interacts when it comes to the tooling vs. metadata API.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The functionality and power that plugins can bring.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the concept of going open source plays into the overall strategy for the CLI.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the challenges that come with moving the CLI into open source.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What’s next on the Salesforce roadmap.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Link