John De Santiago

Unfortunate Rebranding

May 6th, 2024  |  1 hr 33 mins

arm, informatica, microsoft, nashville, oracle, release notes, unit testing

In this episode, we discuss unit testing, Salesforce's rumored bid to acquire Informatica, Microsoft's ARM chips, Oracle moving headquarters to Nashville, and a few notable highlights from the Summer '24 release notes.

Infinite Helpers

April 11th, 2024  |  1 hr 55 mins

ai, apple, johnny ive, saas, sam altman, shopify, teams

In this episode, we discuss the need to always challenge assumptions, Jason Fried’s thoughts on SaaS, Personal AI agents, The UK’s 4-day work week, Microsoft’s unbundling of Teams and Office, Mitch Spano’s blog post on selective unit testing, Shopify poaching salesforce folks, the possibility of Apple getting into robots, Johnny Ive and Sam Altman cooking up a “personal AI device”, and the ever-aging Gmail.

It’s the Model, Stupid!

March 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 44 mins

In this episode, we catch up on the TrailblazerDX event, data cloud, various topics around generative AI coding assistants, and a brief discussion on approaching data de-duplication.

Wrong, but Magnified

February 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 41 mins

ai, github, investors, learn-to-code, opinion, passkeys, startup, v4v, value4value

In this episode, we discuss podcasting 2.0 and Value4Value support, becoming a developer, opinions on AI and its impact on learn-to-code, the GitHub data tracking results on the fastest-growing countries for software development, Bret Taylor's recent funding round for AI startup, activist investors trimming stake in Salesforce, and the increased popularity in passkeys.

Digital People

January 23rd, 2024  |  1 hr 47 mins

ai, apple, davos, microsoft, oracle, slack, spring release, vision pro, watson, xcode

In this episode, we discuss Apple Vision Pro, Watson XCode Assistant, Microsoft becoming Oracle's largest customer, highlights from the Salesforce Spring '24 release notes, Slack Catch Up feature, lessons learned as a developer list, and Benioff's interviews at Davos and AI.

Exploiting the Opportunity

December 11th, 2023  |  1 hr 43 mins

earnings, named credentials, open ai, platform, q3 2024, tdx, trailblazerdx

In this episode, we discuss TrailblazerDX registration, Open AI and Salesforce, Salesforce as a development platform, AI coding tools, named credentials, and Salesforce's Q3 2024 earnings report.

Harmonize The Systems

November 6th, 2023  |  1 hr 10 mins

In this episode, we celebrate 10 years of producing this podcast and discuss a rant about Agile and Okta's security breach.

Landwich

October 10th, 2023  |  1 hr 29 mins

ai, einstein, seven sins, software, trivia, trust layer

In this episode, we discuss the seven sins of software development, Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer, and test Jeremy's knowledge with a bit of AI trivia.

The Whole Megillah

September 24th, 2023  |  1 hr 31 mins

ai, df23, dramatic ai, dreamforce, einstein, gpt, hardliner, keynote, trailblader

In this episode, we discuss our reactions to Marc Benioff's Dreamforce '23 Main Keynote.

Properly Chill

September 10th, 2023  |  1 hr 37 mins

benioff, black hammer, caching, community, dreamforce, gds, lwc, mckinsey, meetup, salesforce park, sho restaurant

In this episode, we discuss the Good Day, Sir! Community meetup at Black Hammer, Dreamforce 2023 and Benioff's comment to move the conference out of San Francisco, DevOps and deployments, permissions, Salesforce Park's Sho Restaurant canceled, Lightning web component improvements, and McKinsey's partnership with Salesforce.

Satchels of Human Goo

August 27th, 2023  |  1 hr 40 mins

branching, low-code, nvidia, release notes, symantics, winter 24

In this episode, we discuss low-code tools, code semantics, product first vs. code first, branching strategy, Nvidia's sales growth, AI grifting, and some notable updates from the Winter '24 release notes.

Incredibly Stingy

August 7th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

green code, hyper force, lawsuits, layoffs, videos

In this episode, we discuss green coding, Hyperforce, recent lawsuits aimed at Salesforce, layoffs, quiet terminations, and funny videos by Ike Wagh.

Egg MacGuffin

July 16th, 2023  |  2 hrs 3 mins

ai, anchor brewing, certinia, fflib, figma, patterns, repository, soql lib, thirsty growler

In this episode, we get out of the office and record from our local watering hole, Thirsty Growler. We discuss AI and its general impact on developers, the repository pattern, SOQL Lib, SF CLI 2.0, Figma, Certinia, FFLib, Anchor Brewing, and many tangents thanks to the beer.

GDS GPT

June 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 9 mins

apple, gpt, vision pro

In this episode, we discuss Apple's announced Vision Pro, the annoyance of the GPT buzzword, Salesforce and Google Cloud AI offerings, Brett Taylor's play for CEO, and Salesforce as a job title.

Touching Teslas

March 31st, 2023  |  1 hr 8 mins

ai, chatgpt, jetbrains, layoffs, salesforce, slack, subscription, survey

In this episode, we discuss subscription services, ChatGPT, a somewhat uninteresting developer ecosystem survey by JetBrains, and other Salesforce-related topics.

Deprecated

March 17th, 2023  |  1 hr 24 mins

23, chatgpt, conference, dx, eda, growth, npsp, profit, tdx, trailblazer

In this episode, we discuss topics from TrailblazerDX '23, Salesforce's focus on profitability, and new core products for Education and Non-Profit.