045: Multitenant Architecture with Ian Varley

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The core idea of what multi-tenancy is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How we can architecturally define the tenant.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to go about grouping the kinds of services that operate with multi-tenancy.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The complicated world of microservices.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How acquisitions look and work together within Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What the application Salesforce core looks like.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How metadata works from a physical database layer point of view.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why awareness of cognitive bias is important to this field of work.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Ian on Twitter:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/thefutureian"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"