Stefan Chandler Garcia, a Salesforce developer advocate, introduces a new series for developers getting started on the Salesforce platform. The series uses a fictitious company called Dreamhouse to show how to extend Salesforce and build custom applications.
Welcome to how to Dev, a new series created to help you get started with development on Salesforce. I'm Stefan Chandler Garcia, a developer advocate at Salesforce and I'll show you how to extend the Salesforce platform and create custom applications to help businesses and organizations succeed. In this series we're going to teach you how to take this simple and data driven user interface and turn it into this visually polished and intuitive experience, making users lives easier and more efficient. If this is your first time working with Salesforce, welcome. Salesforce is a powerful low code platform which will help you build quickly and efficiently, allowing you to connect with your customers in new ways. Now, this fictitious company called Dreamhouse already uses Salesforce to get a single view of their customers and they want to take it even further. But since we're all developers here, let's take a moment and focus on how the Salesforce platform actually works before we dig into Dreamhouse. The foundation of the Salesforce platform provides infrastructure and network services. That means you don't have to worry about things like data centers, disaster recovery or encryption. Then we have a layer of application and Data services like APIs, UI and developer tools, all provided out of the box. And this is all powered by metadata. All of your configuration, automation and UI is all represented in your environment's metadata. So let's take a look at what all of this means for Dreamhouse. Want to learn more? Click the link on the screen to watch the full series streaming exclusively for free right now on Salesforce plus.
