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Oh have I longed to write this blog post, ever since I bought a Steam Link for myself as a christmas gift I’ve been wanting to make use of it. I’m the kind of person who sometimes (a bit too often) buys stuff first and motivates the purchase later (sometimes with a bit too much infrastructure). Anyways this blog post was a starting point for me: Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2!

Last week a client asked me to help out, we had been creating a system that creates PDF files in Salesforce using Drawloop (today known as Nintex Document Generation which is a boring name). Anyways, we had about 2000 PDF created in the system and after looking into it there doesn’t seem to be a way to download them in bulk. Sure you can use the Dataloader and download them but you’ll get the content in a CSV column and that doesn’t really fly with most customers.

Long time no blog post, sorry. I have meant to write this post forever but I have managed to avoid it. Anyways, consider the scenario when you sit in your couch and you wonder: “What’s the temperature in my fridge?” “Did I close the door?” “What’s the humidity?” You have already installed your Electric Imp hardware in the Fridge (Best Trailhead Badge Ever) and it’s speaking to Salesforce via platform events, you even get a case when the temperature or humidity reaches a threshold or the door is open for too long.

Good evening, In my previous post (Upgrade your Electric Imp IoT Trailhead Project to use Big Objects ) I showed how you can use Big Objects to archive data and now I will show how you can visualise the data in a Lightning Component. So now we have big objects being created but the only way to see them is by executing a SOQL query in the Developer Console (SELECT DeviceId__c, Temperature__c, Humidity__c, ts__c FROM Fridge_Reading_History__b).

I first heard about Big Objects in a webinar and at first I didn’t really see a use case, and it was in BETA so I didn’t care that much but now that it was released in Winter ‘18 everything changed. My favourite Trailhead Badge is still the Electric Imp IoT one and I had thought it would be fun to store the temperature readings over a longer period of time. Since I run my integration in a Developer Editions I have 5 MB of storage available, this is not that much given that I receive between 1 and 2 Platform Events per minute.