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Salesforce launched in 1999 before before cloud was a thing. It's basically just a big Oracle database.

• mpeg 7y ago
  That's not very fair to a company that was one of the pioneers of a lot of the things we consider normal on today's software as a service. Also incorrect, they have great cloud and devops practices. If anything it's likely this bug's impact would be limited due to how decentralised SFDC operates. Still a massive fuck-up, I'm interested in seeing if they'll release any more detail on why it happened.
  • the_duke 7y ago
    While a little unfair, and Salesforce is a decent product with nice dev tooling (apart from the weird ancient Java ish custom language), but under the hood, it really is just a Oracle database per org.
    • moocowtruck 7y ago
      > decent product with nice dev tooling whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat hahahaha i can't take that seriously; I've used it and it felt like a giant pit of despair
    • vips7L 7y ago
      Weird ancient proprietary language. Impossible to run locally. No debuggers. Virtually impossible to put an entire org in source control. No package manager. More undefined behavior than a C compiler.
• no_wizard 7y ago
  Well, they do own heroku https://www.heroku.com/ https://www.heroku.com/
  • sbr464 7y ago
    They purchased Heroku.
    • sb8244 7y ago
      In fairness they did do long enough ago that they would have massively messed it up if they at least didn't understand something about running software. SFDC hate is pretty common, maybe because of how big they are. I think that their tech is actually pretty impressive.
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      • CPLX 7y ago
        The hate is likely propelled in part because their sales process is the work of Satan. Like seriously I would rather lick alcohol soaked razor blades than do a standard annual renewal of a Salesforce contract.