Posts Tagged ‘force.com’

Force.com – Multitenant Architecture Under the Covers

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Overview of the Force.com multitenant architecture, given by Salesforce Chief Software Architect.

Without multi-tenancy
- Customers may not be on the same versions
- Lots of hardware, software versions

Multi-tenancy
- Data-focused platform for building data-focused applications.
- SF is expert at providing virtual database for each tenant.

SF
- Runs 10′s of thousands of [...]

Tour de Force – Salesforce as Dev Platform

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

This post is a brief summary of the keynote from Tour de Force introducing Salesforce.com’s strategy.

In general, it seems to me like there is movement in the industry toward providing a number of things as services at all levels of the software application stack ranging from applications that you can "buy" on a scalable, subscription [...]