073: Experience Cloud Applications with Melissa Hansen

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Melissa Hansen is the co-founder and principal architect for the HiFi Consulting Group. In this episode, we discuss her experiences working with nonprofits since she started the group. The HiFi Consulting Group also built out an application using Experience Cloud, and we break down the architectural and development decisions made while creating that app. Tune in for great information from Melissa.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Melissa got her foot in the door at Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the HiFi Group does.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Melissa’s journey from admin to developer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she first started learning programming languages.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The users she created her application for.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The maintainability benefits of using an app that’s almost purely on the platform.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Melissa considered when it came to the data model of her app.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why she thinks about who’s going to inherit a project as she’s working on it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Tips for making data-bound Apex classes perform.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">When to use base components vs. custom components.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The performance gains