Live Webinar Announcment: Multitenant Magic: Under the Covers of the Force.com Data Architecture

For those of you interested in Force.com and multi-tenancy issues, you won’t want to miss this. Craig Weissmann, Chief Software Architect of Force.com, is going to give a live webinar about the inner workings of Salesforce.com’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. This presentation is based on the recent paper that Salesforce.com hired me to [...]

The Force.com Multitenant Architecture

Here is the link that I promised for the white paper that I wrote for the folks at Salesforce.com. The abstract for the paper reads as follows:
“Force.com is the preeminent on-demand application development platform in use today, supporting some 47,000+ organizations. Individual enterprises and commercial software-as-a service (SaaS) vendors trust the platform to deliver robust, [...]

Introducing EquiVol

The generic application that I’m proposing for my cloud/PaaS/DbaaS application platform study is called EquiVol. The EquiVol application keeps track of the monthly open and closing price for a given publicly traded equity on a United States stock exchange. Besides being helpful with my stock trading endeavors, I believe that the EquiVol application will be [...]

Multi-Tenant Times

I know, I know. I don’t have a very good track record updating my blogs. But now it’s time for me to change all of that. My main problem is that I get involved in projects that are all-consuming, and neglect my desire to regularly share my thoughts on Software as a Service (SaaS), Database [...]

What Exactly Is Database as a Service?

To make sure that we are all starting from the same point, I thought it would be prudent to clearly define the term “Database as a Service” (DbaaS), at least as I see it. As of the time that I wrote this post, there were no related pages at Wikipedia about Database as a Service [...]

Hello Everyone

Alright, this is my second go at a blog. With my previous blog, I wasn’t very active in posting. I suppose that this was because I was too busy with other stuff. But I think it was also because I didn’t have enough focus on the topics I wanted to discuss. I originally wanted to [...]