114: Salesforce Connect & DynamoDB with Ross Belmont

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we sit down and talk with Ross Belmont, the Director of Product Management at Salesforce, about his products – Salesforce Connect and the new DynamoDB Connector.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Salesforce Connect provides data virtualization, surfacing structured data inside the Salesforce UI and declarative tools experiences, even though data resides outside the four walls of Salesforce. Their vision is to get to a point where it no longer matters that external objects are external.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ross also shares the current status of DynamoDB coming in pilot. Their team is currently working with Amazon Web Services, extending Salesforce Connect ideas over to Amazon's DynamoDB, a super high-volume, NoSQL datastore. </span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ross’s first-ever computer</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">His entry into programming and product design</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What enables Salesforce Connect?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The role of OData</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Other examples of entities Salesforce Connect is attached to</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Our current relationship with Amazon: why and how are we working with them?</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Challenges around</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">DynamoDB </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Authentication and decomposing credentials for more flexibility</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font