Anup Jadhav

The Remarkable Spread operator

A quick post to write about one of my favourite ES6 feature - Spread operator. What is it?Official (and frankly boring) definition from Mozilla docs: Spread syntax (...) allows an iterable such as an array expression or string to be expanded in places where zero or more arguments (for function

security

How I learned to stop worrying and love SecOps

Today we'll look at the discipline of DevSecOps (a portmanteau of developer, security and operations).

advice

Good judgement - leaders secret sauce

“With good judgment, little else matters. Without it, nothing else matters." - Noel Tichy, Warren Bennis ( from How Winning Leaders make great calls)Good judgment is a quality that is universally desired but is surprisingly difficult to define or characterise precisely. Try it. Pause before reading further and attempt a

es6

var, let & const - an introduction

We look at differences between var, let and const

mental model

Invert, always, invert

man muss immer umkehren - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi(loosely translated - Invert, always, invert) Today, we will look at one of my favourite mental models called - The Inversion principle. Mental models are a set of simple, abstract but useful principles that help us make sense of the world

sfdx

SFDX - an Exec summary

A primer for execs that will give you a bird's-eye view of a modern DevOps toolkit for the Salesforce platform.

management

Managers one-on-ones meeting playbook

One of the things that a manager must absolutely do (without fail) especially if you want to track the pulse of the individual/team morale is one-on-ones(1:1)

management

Tracking Developer Productivity

If you work as a software engineer (especially as a manager or tech lead), one of the things that you want to track is individual and team productivity. The problem is that productivity is subjective, vague and has shades of grey.

Interview on SalesforceWay podcast

Recently I was interviewed by the excellent Xi Xiao on his Salesway podcast. We talked about governance and salesforce change management process - a topic close to my heart. I strongly believe that investing in a robust Continuous Integration / Delivery setup pays off huge dividends in the long term. &

Integration Architecture Designer Certification Guide

Introduction For architects, analysts, and application managers who want to prove they can design and implement secure, scalable integrations with the Lightning Platform, and are able to communicate the solution and design trade-offs to business/technical stakeholders. The beauty of the Salesforce App Cloud platform is that it not only

architecture

Possibilities with Salesforce Evergreen

Salesforce introduced Evergreen at Dreamforce 2019. It came as a surprise announcement (in a good way) since I was expecting the focus to be on Lightning Web Components (LWC). Evergreen introduces a completely new platform and paradigm to build applications on the Salesforce platform. If you know me, you'll know

architecture

Documentation - your secret weapon

When you work on a software project, someone will eventually ask a variation of this dreaded question - "Do you know where I can find documentation for this feature?" or "Do you know why we implemented pattern x over pattern y?" or my personal favourite "What the heck does this

architecture

From monolith to microservices - a journey

Reposted from InsurtechGuys (my new insurance and insurtech related blog). This is part 2 in the series of articles about the microservices architecture for Insurance and insurtech companies. In part 1, I gave a brief overview of microservices architecture. In this part I'll provide a rough guideline of how you

One of these things pod - guest appearance

I had the pleasure of appearing as a guest on the One of these things podcast to talk about facebooks new cryptocurrency Libra. It was fun sharing my opinion on Libra and what it means to the ongoing crypto revolution in the world. You can listen to the episode here.

microservices

Microservices - a gentle introduction

Introduction to Microservices architecture

Salesforce Posse podcast

I'm delighted to announce the launch of my new podcast with Francis Pindar (@radnip) called the Salesforce Posse. The podcast is aimed at Salesforce developers, architects and admins. You can listen to our first episode here. Episode 1: May 2019 Salesforce Newscast 1e3)g=1e3;else if(~~g Thanks for

salesforce

10 Lessons from 10 years of Saleforce Development

It's been 10 years since I first started working on the Salesforce platform. So I thought I'd share 10 personal lessons from 10 years of Salesforce development. Most important skill for admins, devs, architects is to understand the interdependence and interplay between code (trigger, apex controllers), pseudo-code (process builder, workflow,

10 commandments for writing spiffy Lightning Apps

Recently, I gave a talk at London’s Calling event. The talk was called 10 commandments for writing spiffy Lightning apps. The talk was recorded and the video is on-line on the London’s Calling youtube channel. However, when I watched the video I could see that I was talking

AI to replace Salesforce Developers

Special Announcement - 01st April 2017 Artificial Intelligence will soon start cranking Apex, Visualforce, and JavaScript code - an anonymous source in the Salesforce R&D team has confirmed. The demo, that was exclusively shown in a private event to some human developers like me, was mind blowing to

Coding with Anup - JavaScript scope

In the second episode of Coding with Anup, I look at JavaScript scope - local, global, function, lexical etc. This is part of my introduction to JavaScript series.

Coding with Anup - Episode 1

I am excited to announce my brand new channel on youtube - Coding with Anup. I plan to do a series of screencasts and tutorials on Salesforce platform, Heroku, JavaScript & more. Without further ado, I'd like to present to you episode 1 of Coding with Anup. Enjoy!

Bluecanvas Interview

The team at Blue Canvas recently interviewed me about source control, CI, Salesforce DX and a host of other topics. It was a pleasure talking to Bluecanvas, and can't wait to try out their tool to improve Salesforce development process.

Certification

Integration Architecture Certification Guide & Tips

This is a repost of a post I wrote for SalesforceBens blog. The beauty of the Salesforce App Cloud platform is that it not only allows you to build apps at lightning speed but also provides tools to connect the platform with external systems. With its API-first approach you can

Dreamforce

Dreamforce 2015 - A Developer's Perspective

Dreamforce, if you don't know, is an experience that cannot be shoehorned into conventional terms like a tech conference. It is so much more than that. Sure, there is a business expo that allows product and services companies to show their wares. There is also a keynote along with sessions

Lightning

Thoughts on Lightning

At Dreamforce this year, the weather outside Moscone centre was bright and sunny, but inside the centre the attendees were struck by Lightning. I am sure most of you have heard of Lightning by now. Some of you eager beavers might have even started hammering out Lightning components and apps