Special episode without guest. I quickly talk about my TrailheaDx 19 trip.
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What is DX conference?
Shall you also join the conference?
How to set a reasonable goal from joining the conference?
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[00:00] Hey everybody, this is Xi Xiao. This is a very special episode of Salesforce Webcast. Today I don't have any guest with me. I just want to quickly talk through the Salesforce DX conference I just attended in end of the May in two thousand nineteen. So I want to quickly talk through what DX is and what would you consider before going to the conference and what your expected goal from this conference. Basically, three things I want to quickly talk through. So let's start with the DX conference. What it is. If you didn't know what it is, it's the Salesforce yearly arranged. Developer conference. That's the description from the website, from the title. It has been three or four years so far, and the content definitely has expanded for only the from the only for the developers. Now it includes admins and architects as well. But still, it's about the Salesforce technology. Does not has much about the sales, about customers, or you know the marketing. Actually, this is very into my personal taste. Rather than the Dreamforce, I'm definitely more in favor of the the DX conference happening also in San Francisco. So then, let's talk about should you participate into the conference or not. So
[01:30] as a consultant, my answer is it depends, right? There are definitely a couple of things you need to carefully consider before going to the conference. First one is about the money, okay? So is it the personal trip you're going to pay by yourself, or the company pays the trip plus the entrance fee? So that's something you need to definitely consider in prior, because it's going to be at least the seven thou seven thousand dollars involved, and it's not a small amount of money. Okay, and also it's gonna be at least a two day in the conference and three plus three day the optional bootcamp, so. Do you have a family? Do you have kids to take care of? Because I spent like five days in San Francisco. It's across the weekend, so definitely I need to, you know, make sure the family is already taken care of during this time. And I think also. The question number three is: What is your expectation from the conference plus the bootcamp if you also participate? Actually, I do not have a high expectation from the content. The main drive for me to go to boot. Sorry, go to the DXA is, mainly to networks with people. Frankly speaking, because most of the let's say all
[03:00] of the my podcast guests located in in the U.S. I've never met any one of them before. So this is the excellent time for me, you know, to meet them face to face and network with them, you know, have a. Good time with them. So basically, that was my main drive to go to the DX. But addition to that, I also expect to get something out of the conference content and the bootcamp as well. And it really turned out the bootcamp content and the conference—they are phenomenal. You know. Salesforce definitely spent a lot of effort to make sure everybody's having fun there, and also learned something out. And the presentations were done in a professional way. So, if you have not. Attended the expo before, and you're planning for that. I would highly recommend if you have all these prerequisites I just mentioned, taking into consideration, and you decide to go to conference, then definitely it's a good time for you to go there to to enjoy the sessions, and then a little bit about the. A boot camp, which is optional, you don't have to participate. But I, anyway, I did. You are gonna be in a big classroom with a lot of classmates, and you get a. A really expert to instruct
[04:31] you into a specific topic like a Lightning Web Component or Application Architect or System Architect. You know advanced admins, different pathways. You're gonna participate in different classrooms. So you're gonna spend three day hectic three days to go through a lot of content and then. To me, the content was not the main focus because you know, just three days, a lot of rabbit holes to dig into, and the too many. Classmates, in my opinion, they were everybody's asking questions, so you get sidetracked every now and then, so you cannot really learn too much in depth in in the three days. So what I really get out of the bootcamp is to think from the architect point of view to understand how difficult some of the exams, the certificate exams are, and why those are, you know, why those are that difficult. For example, I took the admin. Architect, uh, what's it called? Ad, yes, admin architect. Yeah, the CAA path. Anyway, is that the sharing visibility and data architect? So those two things are really difficult certificate exam, and it definitely makes sense why they are important, right? They are basically the core of the platform, especially the sharing and the visibilities, share, because Salesforce pay high attention to the security part. So there are a lot of things you need to learn,
[06:01] like the object security, the field security. You know sharing rules. So all these things are the are really the essential of the Salesforce platform. So. I what I really learned is how to think as an architect, how to, you know, to to, for example, in the classroom we used some. Sample scenarios. So the experts, the instructors, they tell us, okay, how to translate the business requirement into the technical terms, how to adapt them, how to implement them in the Salesforce platform. So what are the governance limits you need to consider? What are the things you need to, the caveats you need to pay attention to? So all these things made to me. Kind of triggered or intrigued to be an architect in the future. So I I definitely see a lot of like art and learning points in the architect path. So that was my main take away. Actually, in addition to the phenomenal content. So I think that's all I wanted to talk about. So if you Want to decide whether to go to the DX? Think about the points I just mentioned, and then if you have already decided to go there and you had to pay it and you have enrolled into the events, definitely
[07:31] you're gonna be having fun there. A lot of things you can learn, a lot of gifts as well from the Salesforce. So hopefully you can. Get something out of my rambling in this episode, and hopefully see you in the next time. Thanks. Bye bye.
