079: State of Salesforce API's '21 with Kris Harrison

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kris Harrison is a Director of Product Management here at Salesforce. Specifically, he works with enterprise API’s and external services. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kris used to be a Consultant with The Gap until his abrupt transition to Product Management. In his past, he also led a charge to begin thinking about services that are called from multiple customer touchpoints instead of standalone website features. In this episode, we’re talking more about his historical experience, what his current role at Salesforce looks like, and some great insights into API.  Listen in to get an angle on the current state of API's for 2021, including what is going to be retired and what the roadmap looks like.</span></p> <p>Also if any developers would like early preview access to the GraphQL pilot, they can tweet Kiril Seksenov (<a href= "https://twitter.com/k_seks" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/k_seks&source=gmail&ust=1619720187121000&usg=AFQjCNHG_HhEha4PXYbcuL9NrVT0XAIuvA">@k_seks</a>).</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Kris came to join Salesforce’s enterprise API team.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What teams within Salesforce he is the Product Manager for.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What a “day in the life” looks like for him in his current position.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Characteristics of a good API.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How developers can use an API effectively. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What a Composite Graph is and how it can help developers.</span><