Salesforce Platform Basic: Understand the Salesforce Architecture

Note: All credit goes to Salesforce, I am just a developer who enjoy playing trailhead and try to make note to myself.

Architecture Basic

Trusted Multitenant Cloud

• Able to deliver Software as Services
• Seamless upgrade 3 times a year

Scalable,Metadata platform 

• Meta data is data about data.
• Metadata driven architecture means everything schema,code,configuration are specified in metadata.

Fast App development and customization

Because it use metadata,so it is quicker.

Largest Enterprise Ecosystem.

Complete CRM

• Support sales,service,analytics,marketing,community and apps needs.

API(Application Programming Interface)

• A contract between two pieces of software, allowing them to connect to each other and exchange information
• Provided with powerful API.

Source:Understand the Salesforce Architecture