131: Salesforce Architecture with Ian Varley [Extended] Pt. 2

If you joined us last week, you met Ian Varley. Ian is a Principal Architect here at Salesforce who has extensive experience with Salesforce CRM and multi-tenant architecture. He also comes from a musical background which has helped him develop his coding skills.

Last week, you heard part one of our conversation on Salesforce architecture. We split our discussion up so you could listen to it in full. Today in part two we talk all about metadata and why it is so important.  We also get into one of Ian’s favorite topics - cognitive bias in technology.

Tune in to finish the extended version of my discussion with Ian Varley.

Show Highlights:

• The value of deeper semantic integrations of data.
• How meta-databases physically work.
• How unique IDs are generated.
• What an instance is.
• Why some IDs are 15 characters and some are 18.
• Why awareness of cognitive bias is important.
• The software Salesforce created to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Links:

• Ian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefutureian
• Ian on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianvarley/
• Brains Considered Harmful: http://bit.ly/brains-considered-harmful