115: Event Relays with Tyson Read

In this episode, we sit down and talk with Tyson Read, the Director of Product Management at Salesforce, about Event Relays, and specifically, how they can help your integration between Salesforce and Amazon.  Tyson previously worked as a conservation biologist and in biomechanics until he transitioned into computers and coding. Tyson's first project with Salesforce was building a mobile app with a mobile SDK to help biologists go out into the field and record different kinds of observations. In his current role at Salesforce, Tyson works on different eventing technologies using platform events and change data capture, working on the runtime for those products and figuring out how to use events, not only to empower customers but also to actually build Salesforce products. Show Highlights: Learning Python as his first language His introduction to Salesforce Different products using events right now Salesforce’s current partnership with Amazon in terms of eventing Using the AWS EventBridge for directing events to your services The working parts of an Event Relay Grouping function for channels and authentication How Event Relays are integrated into a flow Possible use cases   Links: Connect with Tyson Read on these platforms: Tyson on Twitter - https://twitter.com/tysonreads  Tyson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonread/