This edition of the Keenan Vision Podcast I interview Nicolas Vuillamy, a CTO at Cloudity, who is a Salesforce system integrator and custom application developer based in Europe. We talk about his open source project sfdx-hardis (documentation, Github). Nicolas and his team got a little frustrated with the devops sprawl and other management issues when it came to working with SFDX-CLI pipelines. To make it all work better they created sfdx-hardis, which is a layer on top of SFDX-CLI which encapsulates a lot of common commands. In this interview we go over the motivation for sfdx-hardis for a b ..read more

This is a podcast presentation of an article published earlier this week. https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/12/19/salesforce-devops-center-launches-with-high-expectations/ Salesforce last week finally announced General Availability of DevOps Center, a new Salesforce feature designed to ease application development and release management. DevOps Center was originally introduced under “safe harbor” in late 2019, so this announcement culminates one of the most anticipated releases of a Salesforce feature in the last few years. “DevOps Center is one of our most-requested and most-anticip ..read more

This week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we delve into Provar Manager with Sam Arroyo, Provar product manager. In this tour we go through what is Provar Manager and get a demo. What is Provar and Provar Manager? The Provar Quality Hub Enterprise hub for collating and understanding all kinds of testing inputs Test Manager Demo Test Plans Application Lifecycle Management integration Analytics and metrics Salesforce DevOps Center integration Elements.Cloud integration Reports and Dashboards About Provar Provar pairs intuitive testing solutions, including Provar Automation and Provar Manager ..read more

We have more excellent Salesforce devops demos this week with another member of the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products Gallery, Prodly. We are blessed to have David Clark, VP of Product over at Prodly to give us a tour of the product today. Prodly Overview Demo Environments Environment prep Ancillary Metadata Management Moving around ancillary metadata Saving tons of time Thank you everyone. Prodly enables Salesforce teams to increase productivity by 80 percent while reducing risk up to 30 percent by putting next-gen DevOps into the hands of admins and citizen developers. By reimagining th ..read more

Welcome to the latest episode of the Keenan Vision podcast! This is part of our continuing series of hosting companies who made the SalesforceDevops.net Top Products list. This week we are graced with Dan Puttman who is showing us Salto. (dan.puttman@salto.io). Salto translates your business applications’ configuration into text, allowing you to search, compare, test, deploy, and track changes across your environments. Dan shows us NaCl, the new application description language devised by Salto, and how it works throughout a Salesforce release management system. Outline What is and Why Salto ..read more

Dreamforce Recap Top Line – Definitely very successful Trailblazers Vendor Ecosystem Overall energy and push Genie Opening keynote – as theatrical as ever. Brett Taylor took center stage to unveil Genie. A re-packaging of Salesforce Marketing CDP, nee Datorama. Adapters to each cloud Analysis Salesforce is being talked about as not being a growth company because they can’t compete in the “intelligent data layer.” This move is strong because Salesforce is now the #1 enterprise application delivery platform, having recently eclipsed SAP in quarterly revenues. It has a chance of sparking i ..read more

In this episode I get a full demo and product description from Copado demo star nlarrabee@copado.com Nolan Larrabee. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/. I love how Nolan took us on a journey through a day-in-life of a Copado team member. I saw how Copado leverages metadata intelligence to keep up with org changes and to organize the development process. We also saw how Copado has an extensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) pr ..read more

In this episode I get to talk to Derek Ross, a demo star from Opsera. This is a podcast series that is part of the Salesforce Devops Top Products gallery. Please be sure to check it out at https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/salesforce-devops-top-products-gallery/. Derek gives a full demo of Opsera here. We start off with looking at how the Salesforce release management features work in detail. We then look at the workflow interface and how that works with cloud nave devops too. Then we go into details about observability and how to use information generated during devops to improve workflo ..read more

In this episode I go over the latest market research findings at SalesforceDevops.net. In this article https://salesforcedevops.net/index.php/2022/08/16/saas-devops-grows-to-critical-importance/ I go a public equity survey where I looked at 126 public cloud companies. I analyzed the growth and the number of new companies entering the market. Based on those observations, I predict that SaaS devops will grow to critical importance because of the number and complexity of managing SaaS systems in the future ..read more

This week on the Keenan Vision Podcast we continue our interview series with Waqas Nazir, CEO and founder of DigitSec, a leading Salesforce cybersecurity vendor (DigitSec.com). https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/salesforce-devops-needs-guardrails Here are the points covered by Vernon Keenan and Waqas Nazir in this interesting and lively conversation. Waqas shares how he was eminently practical getting into computers and engineering. He talks about his engineering background, which involved electrical engineering Then we hear about his experience at Microsoft He was lucky enough to be there wh ..read more