131: Salesforce Architecture with Ian Varley [Extended] Pt. 2

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you joined us last week, you met Ian Varley. Ian is a Principal Architect here at Salesforce who has extensive experience with Salesforce CRM and multi-tenant architecture. He also comes from a musical background which has helped him develop his coding skills.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, you heard part one of our conversation on Salesforce architecture. We split our discussion up so you could listen to it in full. Today in part two we talk all about metadata and why it is so important.  We also get into one of Ian’s favorite topics - cognitive bias in technology.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in to finish the extended version of my discussion with Ian Varley.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The value of deeper semantic integrations of data.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How meta-databases physically work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How unique IDs are generated.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What an instance is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why some IDs are 15 characters and some are 18.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why awareness of cognitive bias is important.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The software Salesforce created to help stop the spread of COVID-19.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Ian on Twitter:</span> <a href= "https://twitter.com/thefutureian"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://twitter.com/thefutureian</span></a></li> <li style="font-w