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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

Explaining how to use anti-patterns in practice

If you’ve gone through this book cover to cover, you will have encountered a large number of patterns for how things can go wrong on a Salesforce project. We have structured this by architecture domain to facilitate your understanding and give you more context.

However, you may still be left with some questions about how to best go about applying this new storehouse of knowledge in your day-to-day work. We propose that there are two main ways in which you can proactively use your knowledge of anti-patterns to improve your architecture practice and hone your architecture skills:

  • First, you can use it constructively as part of your architecture and design process
  • Second, you can use it diagnostically as part of your approach to understanding architectures designed by others

We will now go through each of these alternatives in the following sections.

Using anti-patterns constructively

Using anti-patterns...