041 — Inside Scoop: Why Clayton joined forces with Gearset

This week on DevOps Diaries, catch up on the recording of a game-changing moment in the world of Salesforce DevOps — Gearset has officially acquired Clayton.

Join Jack McCurdy as he chats with Kevin Boyle (Gearset CEO and Co-Founder) and Lorenzo Frattini (Clayton CEO and Founder) about their vision for the future. They discuss how this acquisition will transform the DevOps experience for Salesforce professionals, enhance product offerings, and unlock powerful new capabilities for customers.

Expect insights into:
- Why this acquisition? How Gearset and Clayton came together to redefine releases on the Salesforce platform
- What is code scanning for Salesforce?
- What’s next? An early sneak peek into the future of what to expect from Gearset
- Your role in this exciting new chapter!

This is your chance to hear directly from the leaders shaping the future of Salesforce DevOps. Whether you’re a current Gearset or Clayton user, a Salesforce expert, or simply passionate about Salesforce, you won’t want to miss this.

Learn more:
- Develop and deploy secure, well-architected Salesforce solutions using Clayton from Gearset
- Clayton’s 2024 State of Salesforce Development Report
- The State of Salesforce DevOps 2024 Report
- 10 common engineering mistakes Salesforce teams still make

About DevOps Diaries:
Salesforce DevOps Advocate Jack McCurdy chats to members of the Salesforce community about their experience in the Salesforce ecosystem. Expect to hear and learn from inspirational stories of personal growth and business success, whilst discovering all the trials, tribulations, and joy that comes with delivering Salesforce for companies of all shapes and sizes. New episodes bi-weekly on YouTube as well as on your preferred podcast platform.

Podcast produced and sponsored by Gearset. Learn more about Gearset.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gearset

About Gearset:
Gearset is the leading Salesforce DevOps platform, with powerful solutions for metadata and CPQ deployments, CI/CD, automated testing, sandbox seeding and backups. It helps Salesforce teams apply DevOps best practices to their development and release process, so they can rapidly and securely deliver higher-quality projects. Get full access to all of Gearset's features for free with a 30-day trial.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:10 What is Clayton and how did it come about?
07:00 Kevin’s background and how it resonates with Clayton
11:01 How does Clayton help Salesforce customers? 
17:46 Clayton is for everyone and shifting-left
24:23 The cost of vulnerabilities and the importance of security 
27:38 How Clayton helps catch vulnerabilities
32:00 Why Salesforce customers should adopt a more security-based mindset in an AI-driven world
38:54 Why Gearset acquired Clayton
47:10 What the future holds 
51:08 Outlook for Gearset and Clayton customers and closing