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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how communication can seriously affect the outcomes of our projects. You can have the best architecture in the world and it can still fail to make any headway if you fail to communicate it properly or fail to deal with the resistance it engenders in your target audience.

This can be dispiriting to some architects of a more rationalistic bend. Surely, the facts and substance should be the determining factors. Unfortunately, in most organizations, better communication skills will beat stronger technical architecture skills in terms of getting things done.

The good thing is that communication skills, as with all skills, can be learned. There isn’t anything particularly hard about the ways in which you need to communicate to have greater success as an architect—it is just something that takes some practice.

We have now covered all the subject matter of the book and are ready to proceed to the conclusion, where we will summarize...