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Presentation: "The Magic Behind Multi-tenancy"

Time: Wednesday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

How does Salesforce.com's metadata driven multi-tenant Platform support scalable data structure and business logic customization and application development using a common core code base and a shared set of infrastructure?

Agenda:

1. Our multi-tenant religion: everything must be shared including the database; one common code base for innovation and scalability.

2. Metadata-composed applications and the Force.com Application Runtime

3. Salesforce.com patent-pending database and application server technology including the Custom Schema Data Model and multi-tenant query optimizer

4. Managed procedural development via Apex code

Craig Weissman, salesforce.com

Craig Weissman Craig Weissman is Chief Software Architect at salesforce.com where he has designed and built many aspects of the multi-tenant software-as-as-service development platform. Areas of database scalability include the flexible customer data model, the application metadata layer, the row-level sharing model, and the multi-tenant query optimizer. Craig's focus on the force.com development platform includes designing and authoring the Apex hosted programming language as well as the application distribution model. Craig has a BA in Applied Mathematics and a MS in Computer Science from Harvard University.