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.

Links:

• Paul on Twitter
• Paul on LinkedIn
• Dallas Developer Group

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