136: Salesforce Architecture & Community with Paul McCollum

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Paul’s long history with computers and architecture.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he discovered Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why the overlap between user interface and big-picture architecture is important.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The level of planning and documentation an application owner can do without a designer.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The rising importance of technical designers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Architecture blind spots Paul sees on the horizon.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A hack that allows flow to work with infinite records.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Paul started getting involved in the Salesforce community and his current role in it.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://twitter.com/uxaholic"><span style="f