Ivan's Tech blog

Break over, let's get back to it. This post is a continuation of the second part of my Salesforce and DevOps series . In that post, I wrote a list of the tools that apply to Salesforce in the categories that I view to be the "Dev" part of DevOps processes. In this one, I'll try my best to do the same, but for the Ops part. Again, as usual, please let me know if there are any other tools or categories you guys think I missed, happy to update. Before I begin, I have to say that a big part of what software Ops usually does doesn't apply to Salesforce. Being a managed cloud service, we can't really monitor, configure or act at all with regards to their infrastructure, overarching security of the service and their practices (by "they" I mean Salesforce as the provider). What we can do is control and operate how we run our own implementations on top of Salesforce's core platform. Let's start running through the categories. Full disclosure...

After rambling about my views for a while in the start of this series , I thought I'd take it down a couple of levels and talk about the tools that I've used or know about that are compatible with Salesforce and DevOps. This will be a long post, so I divided it in 2, one for Dev, one for Ops. But please bear with me, as it's important and will be needed for the next posts in the series and it can be useful for people as a go-to list. In that spirit, please send me info in the comments about other tools that I missed and you use and love, and I'll keep updating after checking them out. I'll break these 2 posts down into a few categories, as much for ease of reading as for highlighting the importance of each and the width that DevOps brings into any engagement. Of course, this is not a definitive list, as there are a lot of tools that do super cool things, but either I haven't used them, or they don't apply to Salesforce (usually because they're infr...

To get my blog up and running, I thought I'd start with a series regarding my current preferred topic: Salesforce and DevOps. Let's start with a couple of conversation topics (bear with me if you know them already, comment if you don't agree, feel free!): What is DevOps : you can find good definitions for DevOps all over the place ( this one , for example), so I'm not adding anything new here. The important part for me is that people know that it is a culture shift , it's a way of working, and it's not just the tech and tools involved! Who uses DevOps : well, everyone in a technology company should! It includes (as the word implies) Dev and Operations, but it's a bit broader than that, as it also includes testing, collaboration, monitoring, and so on. There is DevOps for everyone! Why use DevOps : the benefits are many! Faster time to market new features through automation Higher quality of deployments, as less defects move all the way to produ...

Hi all, Welcome to my blog, if you want to know a bit more about me and the purpose of this blog, please go to my  About Me  page. To start things, can you please tell me what you'd like to read from me in this blog that is relevant for you? Open to ideas on all things Salesforce and tech related!