093: Pub/Sub API with Emmett Chen-Ran

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emmett Chen-Ran is an Associate Product Manager here at Salesforce. Today I’m sitting down to talk with him about the upcoming Pub/Sub API. We also discuss what will be required from an infrastructure perspective to make it work and work without breaking things.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Pub/Sub API is a brand new API for developers to allow them to do bidirectional streaming events.  Based on gRPC, it offers new features and has an updated messaging protocol from traditional clients like CometD. Currently in pilot, tune in to find out how you can leverage this API for your solutions.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What drew Emmett to pursue the people-centric side of development.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How the Associate Product Management program works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Apache Kafka is and how Salesforce is leveraging it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why we’re expanding the infrastructure on Salesforce’s Streaming API.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to move tons of events to a new runtime without a failure.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the Pub/Sub API is and the benefits it brings.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">gRPC</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is more efficient for developers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How the Pub/Sub API works with and complements CometD.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span sty