Every few years, a technology company will make an important leap forward with a major software update. The new Lightning update for Salesforce is the biggest change to the user interface in the history of the 16 year old cloud software company. In the release video, Salesforce employees who contributed to this update called it 'the project of a lifetime' when discussing its scale and importance in the evolution of the Salesforce platform. While the fundamentals of the platform haven't changed much,.