Motivation


I'm starting new series of posts related to near Salesforce development process. For many years I worked as Salesforce Developer and I took part in many different projects. But I reached high level of Salesforce skills and my everyday work become a gray routine. I longed to find out something new in development that will challenge me. But nothing happen in pure Salesforce projects. So I started to try many different technologies in my home pet projects. It was PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, NodeJS, Go. Each new Programming Language (PL) with it infrastructure opened new world to me, but also brought some disappointments. Some of my home projects, developed many years ago, are still alive (I don’t even know how they work anymore).

All these attempts to find perfect technology led me to stop on this stack: Angular (frontend) + Python (backend) (for some projects it can be NodeJS). And now I'm working as rare type of developer - Integrations Specialist for Salesforce. I combined two absolutely different types of developers in one brain - I'm good in Salesforce (as I have 7+ years of Salesorce development) and also I'm a good as regular Fullstack Developer (I can build and run any kind of regular web apps outside of Salesforce). And now I believe I have enough experience to systematize my knowledges and share it with you, my colleagues. In other hand it is a good chance to me to practice English (as I use technic English mostly to communicate with clients and team members). So let start to summarize cool and exciting world of Salesforce integrations in Python.

To be consistent in my articles let me set the main goal of this blog is development of the real project. I have one old idea to implement - automatic metadata (as a possible option data) backup for Salesforce org. It will be full featured Python service with async automated processes with Angular UI that should interact with Salesforce API. As a platform for this app I will use Heroku. This is pretty hard big project that should touch all aspects of real development process.

Good luck to me! :)

Good Luck!

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