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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

Getting confused about shared responsibility

Almost all SaaS and PaaS platforms use a security model called shared responsibility – that is to say, the vendor takes responsibility for certain parts of the security architecture and others remain the responsibility of the customer. In this section, we will see how misunderstanding this model can lead to issues in the Salesforce case.

Shared Belongs to Salesforce

The Shared Belongs to Salesforce anti-pattern holds that security on the Salesforce platform is always the predominant responsibility of Salesforce.

Example

SmallCo is a provider of specialty lenses for optical instruments. They sell globally and have recently adopted Salesforce Sales Cloud, order management, and B2B commerce to drive electronic commerce directly to business instead of selling exclusively via distributors.

When they did their implementation, the Salesforce platform went through a security review with James, the dedicated security professional...