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Salesforce Anti-Patterns

By : Lars Malmqvist
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Salesforce Anti-Patterns

By: Lars Malmqvist

Overview of this book

Salesforce Anti-Patterns teaches you to spot errors in Salesforce patterns that may seem like a good idea at first but end up costing you dearly. This book will enable Salesforce developers and architects to understand how ingenious Salesforce architectures can be created by studying anti-patterns and solutions to problems that can later lead to serious implementation issues. While there are several books on the market that start with the question, “How do I create great Salesforce architecture?” and proceed to a solution from there, this book instead starts by asking, “What tends to go wrong with Salesforce architectures?” and proceeds to a solution from there. In this book, you’ll find out how to identify and mitigate anti-patterns in the technical domains of system architecture, data architecture, and security architecture, along with anti-patterns in the functional domain of solution architecture as well as for integration architecture. You’ll also learn about common anti-patterns affecting your Salesforce development process and governance and, finally, how to spot common problems in how architects communicate their solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll have gained the confidence to architect and communicate solutions on the Salesforce platform while dodging common mistakes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1: Technical Anti-Patterns
6
Part 2: Solution Anti-Patterns
9
Part 3: Process and Communication Anti-Patterns

Being unclear in several ways

In this section, we explore two anti-patterns that in different ways explore intentional and unintentional lack of clarity in technical communication. We start by exploring an anti-pattern that seeks to deploy a lack of clarity for a tactical purpose but ends up causing adverse effects.

Ambiguous solution

Ambiguous solution proposes to hide away a conflicted or uncertain decision behind ambiguous language and representations to postpone the need to make it.

Example

GrillCo, a major online retailer focused on outdoor cooking equipment, is facing major issues in its order management process. There are frequent unanticipated stock-outs, wrong delivery calculations both for duration and costs, and taxes are not consistently applied correctly.

This is not entirely an IT problem, and in fact, many areas of process improvement have been identified. However, as part of the wider order management transformation, GrillCo management has also decided...