Julian Joseph is a Salesforce DevOps Engineer with a wealth of experience from his time at Salesforce and with Salesforce customers and partners. Julian has built his career on following proven engineering principles and believes that a DevOps mindset combined with a solid business strategy has transformative power.

In this episode, Jack and Julian discuss the importance of high-quality testing in the Salesforce delivery cycle and how Julian has helped teams accelerate and maintain high-quality Salesforce releases. They also explore the differences between customer- and partner-side Salesforce application development.

Hear Julian's recommendations on source control branching, his views on an effective sandbox strategy, his predictions for the DevOps ecosystem heading into 2024, and a surprisingly simple hidden challenge in Salesforce development.

Learn more:
– Salesforce Sandboxes vs. Scratch Orgs: Which Environment Should You Use? https://grst.co/3SI4LQH
– Automated unit tests for Salesforce: https://grst.co/47BRXjb
– Salesforce version control best practices: https://grst.co/47hMzly
– How to update your Salesforce Sandbox environments: https://grst.co/3umVbZC
– Salesforce Test Automation: A Complete Overview: https://grst.co/40MEYZF
– 5 ways for Salesforce teams to avoid merge conflicts: https://grst.co/3G1K7Ua

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Chapter:
0:00 Introductions
1:51 Specialization in Salesforce DevOps
5:00 The role of quality engineers
11:25 Introduce automation into your workflow
16:09 The DevOps difference between ISVs and engineering teams
21:33 Best practices for sandbox management
26:42 Common challenges for DevOps processes
32:35 Recommended learning resources for release management
35:52 Where is DevOps going in the Salesforce ecosystem?
40:02 Final thoughts

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