Salesforce Developers Podcast
136: Salesforce Architecture & Community with Paul McCollum
Paul McCollum is a Salesforce Technical Architect over at Accenture. Though he pursued various interests in college, he eventually came to pursue a degree in Computer Science. From there, he began his first job as a Unix programmer and then found his way into architecture.
In this episode, we talk about just that: all things architecture. Paul shares some cool concepts with us regarding application design, UX, and big-picture architecture as well as what’s coming up for architecture in the future. Tune in to hear it all.
Show Highlights:
- Paul’s long history with computers and architecture.
 - How he discovered Salesforce.
 - Why the overlap between user interface and big-picture architecture is important.
 - The level of planning and documentation an application owner can do without a designer.
 - The rising importance of technical designers.
 - Architecture blind spots Paul sees on the horizon.
 - A hack that allows flow to work with infinite records.
 - How Paul started getting involved in the Salesforce community and his current role in it.
 
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