Force.com Platform: Backstage Pass

What does it take to consistently deploy major releases to more than 1.5 million users several times a year? Back by popular demand, this session introduces the salesforce.com R&D team responsible for the internal agile development programs and processes that delight end users with hundreds of new features every year with amazing predictability. We'll take a look at how salesforce.com applies the Scrum, XP, and agile methodologies, principles, and tools to support their product development cycles.

Learn about some of salesforce.com's public sites built on top of Force.com, such as the partner portal, Developer Force, and the AppExchange. In this session, the app development teams will discuss how they constructed the apps and what challenges they encountered along the way, and then answer audience questions.

For more than 10 years, salesforce.com has been innovating in multitenant cloud-computing architectures. In this session, our Chief Technology Officer will give you a behind-the-scenes look at how the Force.com platform represents a new standard for enterprise application development.

This session will provide a peek inside the technical operations team, processes, and technologies that run the Force.com global infrastructure. We’ll cover the architecture and best practices that ensure a highly available and scalable platform that delivers more than 200 million page views per day.

This Q&A panel will give you the opportunity to meet the core architects and development engineers who built the Force.com platform. Come prepared with your toughest technical questions and see if you can stump the panel!