130: Salesforce Architecture with Ian Varley [Extended] Pt. 1

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ian Varley is a Principal Architect here at Salesforce. He joined us a while back on the podcast to talk about Salesforce architecture. We had to edit that conversation down so much that I wanted to bring it back and share it in full with all of you. We’ll split it up into two episodes over the course of two weeks.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s segment, Ian and I discuss his long history, experience, and knowledge with Salesforce. More than anything, we get into his experience with the inner workings of Salesforce CRM and multi-tenant architecture. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in to hear his rich thoughts on all of this and more.</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 Ian got interested in computers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why people with music backgrounds are often so good at code.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Ian came to work at the core engineering team at Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the architecture platform was like when Ian joined Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What multi-tenancy is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How grouping individual software services within Salesforce works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">All of the things that multi-tenant service providers take care of for customers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What microservices are.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The benefits of