It’s been a joy seeing the excitement over Salesforce DX since we launched at Dreamforce to help you build apps together, and we’re excited to share some great news for those of you who’ve been feeling the same way! Today, we’re announcing the next step in our Salesforce DX journey – the Salesforce DX Pilot (sign up here!). Professionally, there’s nothing better than working hard on a product that will help your customers and make their lives easier.
Salesforce DX defines an entirely new way to manage and develop Salesforce apps across their entire lifecycle to enable new levels of agility:
Since well before Dreamforce, over a dozen teams at Salesforce have been hard at work on Salesforce DX. Not only have we worked with internal Salesforce teams who build on the platform, like Salesforce CPQ (formerly Steel Brick), Financial Services Cloud, and Healthcare Cloud, but we’ve also engaged with dozens of partners and customers through a highly successful Developer Preview – and we’ve learned a lot.
We have:
These are just a few of the items we’ve added or changed based on your feedback. We would not be where we are without the help and support of the people who generously gave their time and energy during the developer preview and for that we thank you. Quotes like this let us know we are on the right track:
“Through one set of elegantly consolidated tools, you can set up your org shape, add data, and spin up a completely fresh scratch org with only what you decide to put in there, all this, reflecting back to one, version controlled source of truth ! Add your Heroku pipelines to this, and you have your full integrated suite of tools for a complete e2e CI/CD process…
Salesforce DX is truly a beautiful experience for the Developers !”
Many of you have participated in Salesforce pilots in the past. Typically, they’re relatively small, with no more than 10-15 customers or partners. But we’re doing something different with Salesforce DX. Because We’re looking to get significant usage and feedback, we’re planning to scale the pilot by a factor of 100. Said another way, we’re hoping to have over one thousand developers participate.
Of course, the most important goal of this pilot is to validate the work we’ve done against your needs and experiences. The best and only way to do this is jointly working with you. Still interested? Here’s how it will work:
Our goal is to onboard everyone who expresses interest in the pilot. That said, we also want to ensure we are providing an experience that facilitates the goals expressed above. Consequently, if the pilot is oversubscribed, we reserve the right to onboard pilot participants in waves and cap the total number of participants. Based on the total number of participants we will be on-boarding users in waves. If you are not in the first group, don’t despair we will get to everyone.
It’s worth reminding everyone that between pilot and general availability (GA), things can and will change. While we expect the transition to be relatively smooth, it’s possible that some of the work you do during the pilot will require updates as we approach GA. That said, there’s no better way to make your voice heard than to actively participate in pilot and provide feedback.
We are incredibly excited to start this journey with you (don’t forget to sign up here!). If you have questions or concerns, please leave them in the comments below. We’ll do our best to answer them.
If you haven’t heard of Salesforce DX, don’t fret. Here are a video, and articles/blog posts that you can view to get you up to speed quickly (skip to 31:30 to get to Salesforce DX).