Slack, the final frontier
Salesforce
Slack Frontiers (the annual flagship conference, think Dreamforce for Slack) took place around 17/18 November (depending on your timezone). For me, this was a great example of why virtual conferences are both great and a problem.It’s pretty unlikely that I’d have made the trip in person, so this was an opportunity to participate that relied on the virtual nature. As I wasn’t attending in person, I was still working. As so often happens, a couple of things came up that meant I saw about 2 minutes of the content. At least with a virtual conference it tends to be (almost) all recorded!
Salesforce is bringing people back into the office. I particularly liked the sound of an “Async Week” where routine meetings were cancelled in favour of “deep” (which I guess means focused) work. It’s been a very long time since I was able to spend a whole week lost in code.
Sustainability Cloud looks like becoming more and more important in the future - according to a report from Fortune Business Insights, the market will be worth over $40 billion by 2028.
Worth has a short interview with Marc Benioff around conscious capitalism - no major surprises if you’ve followed his actions over the last couple of decades, but still an interesting read.
Me
London Salesforce Developers first in person meet up for nearly two years - read more about it at the Bob Buzzard Blog.
Other
Gitlab is now a public company, valued at around $11 billion based on the IPO price of $77 per share.
Github’s annual survey shows that just over 10% of developers expect to go back to the office once the pandemic ends. I wonder how that dovetails with the view of employers - could be interesting!