My company's org was using the Google Maps API for the build of their Salesforce lead page. As Sales Reps input customer data from an external dashboard, my programming makes sure Sales Reps input of customer address data coming in from the website was in a format compatible for the Salesforce lead page to pull and display the correct corresponding Maps Data for each lead or programming to throw the proper error.

In my opinion, the Maps API was a super developer friendly API to work with.

I've dabbled with Linux primarily in university and if in other contexts as secondary and indirect exposure, but I went through the motions of building a script to get a programmatic perspective on Salesforce reporting functionality last week.

Use Case: modifying Opportunities and their associated Customer Service Tasks for heading an incentive program. I'm essentially trying to script and automate the processing of data we do in Excel, Salesforce Reports, and Dataloader.io

Motivation: What if it was all done in one script?