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Application Services on the Web: SalesForce.com

Presented by Dave Carroll on Apr 11, 2009

Community
Architecture
Topics
Platforms ,
Application Servers ,
Cloud Computing
Tags
QCon ,
Salesforce.com ,
QCon London 2008
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Summary
Dave Carroll presents Force.com as a platform for creating enterprise applications in the Cloud using Web service APIs, server side logic, service oriented application support and application lifecycle management service: delivering your application offline or to a mobile device. Dave covers issues, like scalability, huge data sets, security and developer success.

Bio
Dave Carroll is principal developer evangelist at SalesForce.com - growing the developer community and inspiring developers to think creatively about using various Web 2.0 technologies. Dave was instrumental in launching and validating the company's first Web services API and developer tools, including the Flex Toolkit for Apex.

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