Paul O’Rorke

Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect (and just announced new CTO) of Salesforce.com, gave a presentation on “The Magic of Multitenancy:  Under the Covers of the Data Architecture of Force.com” at the SDForum Software Architecture and Modeling Special Interest Group in Palo Alto on March 25th, 2009.  This talk shared a lot of content with an earlier presentation at PARC Forum given by Todd McKinnon, ex SVP for Software Development at Salesforce.  This is because both presentations derive from an earlier presentation given by Craig at Dreamforce 2008.  However, Craig went into a bit more depth and detail in part because he was in a better position to do so, having invented some of the technology, and in part because of the relatively large number of software architects present and because of the interactive nature of SDForum SIG meetings. (continue reading…)