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The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture

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Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.

Bio

Craig Weissman is Chief Software Architect at salesforce.com where he has designed and built many aspects of the multi-tenant software-as-as-service development platform. Areas of database scalability include the flexible customer data model, the application metadata layer, the row-level sharing model, and the multi-tenant query optimizer. Craig has a BA in Mathematics and a MS in CS from Harvard.

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Jul 09, 2009

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  • Does this video work on Firefox?

    by Aayush Puri,

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    I am using FF 3.5 and Flash 9, and the video isn't starting, though it works on IE8 on the same PC.

  • Re: Does this video work on Firefox?

    by Fabio Vignoli,

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    Does not work for me on Firefox 3.0.11 and Flash 10,0,22,87 installed on a Windows XP machine Service Pack 3

  • Very nice

    by Ali Motaz,

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    Brilliant presentation, I liked it a lot!



    I liked how he went into enough detail on how and why they designed things.

    We can debate most of their decisions for ever, and we probably will!



    Best of luck!

  • Well...Congrats. I guess...

    by Tuomas Hietanen,

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    So you have constructed a database over a database? (Maybe you could have used the master database directly...?)
    And then web-site interface (like simplified-web-TOAD) over that to get all coding as configuring... As if customers like to configure.



    Usually price of ultimate configurability is that you lose compiler intelligence (and all functionality).
    But it doesn't matter if it is a "paltform" and actually does nothing by itself.

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