182: SFDX-Hardis with Nicolas Vuillamy

Salesforce Developer Podcast

Join us as we chat with Nicolas Vuillamy, CTO at Cloudity, about his journey from programming on a Commodore 64 at the age of 10 to becoming a professional developer at 16. Listen in as he shares his experience of discovering Salesforce and how the Trailblazer community played a crucial role in his growth. Nicolas talks about the inception of SFDX-Hardis, an open-source project designed to help developers and administrators implement CI/CD processes efficiently, filling the gap between expensive homemade pipelines and third-party tools.

In this episode, we explore how SFDX-Hardis allows administrators and developers to perform complex tasks with simple commands without needing extensive knowledge of Git or SFDX. Nicolas also highlights the importance of having a release manager with Git expertise to handle more complicated tasks like conflicts. Hear the story behind the creation of a purging flow versions command and how feedback from colleagues contributed to the SFDX-Hardis roadmap.

Don't miss this fascinating conversation with Nicolas Vuillamy and learn more about the powerful SFDX-Hardis project!

Show Highlights:

• What SFDX-Hardis is and how it works.
• What the role of a release manager with Git experience is.
• The importance of the project being open source
• How new features are handled

Links:

• Nicolas on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-vuillamy/
• Nicolas on Github: github.com/nvuillam
• Nicolas on Twitter twitter.com/NicolasVuillamy
• Nicolas' blog: nicolas.vuillamy.fr/
• SFDX-Hardis: https://sfdx-hardis.cloudity.com/