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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

Mistaking Salesforce for a regular database

Many people come to the Salesforce ecosystem from other technology backgrounds, and they often come with preconceptions about how architecture should be done based on their past experiences. While that can be enriching to the platform, there are also cases where it can lead you to go astray, architecturally speaking. Perhaps the most frequent of these is the mistake of using Salesforce as though it were some other kind of database—generally a relational one.

Salesforce as Relational Database

The Salesforce as Relational Database anti-pattern consists of mistaking the Salesforce data layer for a relational database.

Example

UmbrellaCo is the largest global manufacturer of umbrellas for the tourism industry. They use Salesforce for managing their B2B sales channel, including opportunity management, quoting, and ordering.

However, in the overall systems landscape within UmbrellaCo, Salesforce is a relatively minor component...