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Speaker

Rajdeep DuaDirector, Developer Relations

@rajdeepdua

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn. ” ― Alvin Toffler

This talk covers• Present State of Industry• Rise of New Technology stacks • Future of Tech Careers• What Salesforce has to offer?• Learnability and Online Learning

Shift in Stacks

Mainframes Client/ Server Cloud

Big dataMachine Learning

Deep Learning

Mobility

IoT

1980- 20001960- 1980 2000 - 2005

Portals

.com

2006 - 2016*

Overall Landscape• Cloud Computing• Layers of Cloud• IaaS → PaaS → SaaS• Multiple Paas offerings

• APaaS• Big Data PaaS• Private PaaS• MBaaS

Cloud Timeline

8

PaaS

• Defining PaaS• Is PaaS still a viable career Option?• Force.com and Heroku : Last man standing…• Cloud Foundry popular in private PaaS

implementations• Docker, Kubernetes : Blurring lines between PaaS

and IaaS

Cloud LandscapeOpportunities and Challenges for Developers• Knowing Languages and Single platform stack is not

good enough anymore• Need to know Operations along with programming• Tech Giants → Legacy vendors• Rise of new tech giants

Job trends• Java, .Net and PHP as stacks are

weakening• Job openings : SAP, Oracle coming down• Demand for developers with specialized

skills - Cloud, Salesforce, AWS etc

• Focus on Three Pillars• Cloud• Big Data/ Analytics• Mobility

In the newsEconomic Times, India

What does Salesforce have to offer?• Cloud platform which has

stood the test of time• Leader in Paas magic

quadrant• Growing at 30% per annum• Very large and vibrant

Salesforce community• Online resources for learning

- Trailhead

Salesforce Developer Connection

• 2.5 million developers world wide• 4th Largest Software Company• Growing at 30 % per annum• Build Applications which are Enterprise Ready, Can scale

and is secure• Build Apps in any Language with Heroku and integrate

with Salesforce backend

Salesforce Developer Community• Thriving Developer Community• Learn and Share• 300+ meet up groups• 75000 members• Largest Groups in

• SFO• Bangalore• Hyderabad• London• New York

Trends on Learning• How do developers learn?• Offline vs Online• Breakdown of traditional learning modes -

classroom• Focus on Self learning online • Rise of Coursera, Udemy, Edx• Salesforce provides a very robust Online

learning platform - Trailhead•

Trailhead is the only online learning platform backed by an Enterprise and a healthy ecosystem.

Get started : trailhead.salesforce.com

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice

as fast as that.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Summary

• Java , .Net , PHP → Salesforce, Heroku, AWS,...• Classroom training, Certifications → Coursera, Trailhead....

Questions?

Thank YouTry Trailhead: trailhead.salesforce.comJoin the conversation: @salesforcedevs