110: 2021 Apex Updates with Daniel Ballinger

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daniel Ballinger is the Director of Product Management for Apex. In his role, he spends the majority of his time balancing options and making decisions about what problems his team should pursue and which they can afford to wait on.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are plenty of exciting things on the Apex roadmap for Daniel and his team right now. In this episode, we discuss some of these updates, including Data Wave and user mode database operations. Tune in to learn all about these new features and when you can expect to see them rolled out.</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;">Daniel’s earliest experiences modding maps.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">His earliest opinions on Apex.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What it takes to break something at Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Daniel and his team promote scalability, growth, and performance with transparency.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Apex users can make Daniel’s job easier.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Data Wave is and how to use it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How big of a difference Data Wave makes in doing CSV to JSON operations.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What user mode database operations are and their benefits.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to switch between safe mode and system mode.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400