Ryan Brainard, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Heroku, joins Joshua Birk on The Salesforce Developer podcast to talk about the curious history of Workbench. While never an officially supported aspect of Salesforce (it’s technically an open source reference application) it has still found a place as something of a Swiss Army knife of debugging utilities for working with Salesforce and its related API’s. Follow along for an origin story of this toolset and it’s evolution over the years. Towards the end, we get a little teaser into what Ryan’s working on over at Heroku.