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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

Forgetting about governance

Governance is important in all architecture domains, but perhaps a few domains can go wrong where governance is missing as the data domain. In the following sections, we will explore two examples of this phenomenon, starting with what happens when you fail to coordinate data models on a common platform.

Disconnected Entities

Disconnected Entities is an anti-pattern characterized by unconnected data entities proliferating in a common database, often with multiple database representations of the same business level entity.

Example

SmileCo is a major provider of dental supplies operating in several global cities. They have been using Salesforce for several years, using a departmental strategy, where each department has run independently on Salesforce without central oversight.

There are three departments that use Salesforce in a serious way and they are as follows:

  • Finance, which uses it for debt collection using a home-grown application...