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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

How Not to Get Confused about Security

This chapter includes anti-patterns related to securing your Salesforce organization. It will start by reviewing a key anti-pattern around the shared security model that is integral to Salesforce. Then, we will look at anti-patterns that can occur when you mistake things that aren’t security for security.

We will continue to look at how not to make a mess of your sharing model and once again finish up with a review of the key points to take away.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • The Shared Belongs to Salesforce anti-pattern and how people get the shared responsibility model wrong
  • How the Compliant Is Secure anti-pattern lulls you into a false sense of security and what you can do about it
  • The Declarative Is Always Safe anti-pattern and why you can’t rely on declarative features to always be secure
  • The Spaghetti Sharing Model anti-pattern – why it is deceptively...