The Blue Canvas team builds Git-based DevOps tools that help Salesforce admins and developers deploy changes safely. Posts credited to the team come from the engineers, product people and early contributors who have written about Salesforce release management since 2016.
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Salesforce is investing in a strategic overhaul of the Force.com developer experience with Salesforce DX, while Blue Canvas offers a managed service that brings native source control to the Salesforce platform in a way that enables CI. Blue Canvas will leverage a lot of the tools that DX makes available, but it is backwards compatible to your current workflow and in private beta today.
Backing up Salesforce metadata is just as important as backing up data. Blue Canvas uses Git to automatically backup metadata changes.
Salesforce DX promises to make Continuous Integration easier with Scratch Orgs.
Git commits serve as documentation and facilitate collaboration. Salesforce developers face challenges with Git and source control.
Unit and functional tests are a key part of any continuous integration pipeline. Here are some tools that make testing easy for Salesforce.
A list of all the best blogs, podcasts and other resources for Salesforce developers.
Salesforce DX is a new development experience that aims to improve the core developer experience. Here are some resources to learn more about it.
How to increase the quality of your Salesforce code with Git and code reviews.
Salesforce developers need a source control solution to handle merge conflicts, track changes, and deploy safely. Blue Canvas offers a tool for this.
Salesforce MVP and developer Adam Olshansky discusses his journey with the platform, certifications, and his thoughts on Dreamforce and version control.
How Atlassian uses Bitbucket, JIRA and other cloud tools to help Salesforce developers collaborate.
Salesforce Developer MVP Anup Jadhav shares his thoughts on Salesforce development, Continuous Delivery, version control, and more. He also discusses the challenges of implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in Salesforce and his excitement for Salesforce DX and Einstein.
Over 850 million lines of code are securely backed up with Blue Canvas, empowering enterprises to continuously deploy and rollback in Salesforce with ease and maintain environment parity across orgs.