088: Scalable Architecture with Karishma Lalwani

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Karishma Lalwani is a Senior Director of Project Management here at Salesforce. Today I’m talking with her all about scalable architecture. In our conversation, we discuss what scalable architecture means on an enterprise level and some takeaways for developers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Karishma was also once known as the “queen of encryption,” a title her former coworkers gave her as a result of her work on a pilot product for platform encryption. Karishma has a long history helping customers be successful at scale and advocating for them internally, tune in to hear from her wealth of knowledge and experience.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the frontier scale team does.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What elastic infrastructure is and how it helps meet demand.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What connected platforms are.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How the “always on” model works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Best practices for developers working with SOQL.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What not to do as a developer working with a 10 record query and why.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why row locking and sharing are problematic.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What developers need to know about “bulkifying” code.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What big objects are and how developers can use them to scale.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style=