065: Modern App Development with Mohith Shrivastava

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mohith Shrivastava is a Lead Developer Advocate here at Salesforce. His main role is to inspire our developers. In this episode, we talk about modern application development. We also discuss the content that Mohith has been producing himself in order to get that information out to you.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mohith has a background in hardware engineering and consulting. Eventually, however, he learned about Salesforce and transitioned into the world of software engineering. Now he produces relevant content and answers questions for developers and gets their feedback on the technologies they use. Tune in to hear more.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Mohith was first introduced to Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His exposure to product development.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How he learned about and started hosting weekly Trailhead Live sessions.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The goal of the modern app development series.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Mohith uses Heroku to scale his applications.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How using tools besides Apex help with scaling and efficiency.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Salesforce functions simplify coding work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Schema Builder helps with building data models.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">When to use Salesforce, Heroku, Heroku Connect, and Redis.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the Apex piece fits into the jigsaw puzzle of modern app design.</span></