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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

Synchronizing excessively

Data synchronization is hard to get right but extremely useful when it works. It is, however, easy to get carried away when starting to put synchronization methods in place, which can cause a plethora of problems. We’ll see how in the following sections.

Unconstrained Data Synchronization

Unconstrained Data Synchronization is an anti-pattern characterized by an overly ambitious approach to synchronizing data between systems without fully appreciating all the things that can go wrong.

Example

BusyCo, a large vendor of productivity-related products, has recently implemented a B2B omnichannel digital experience spanning web, social, call center, and partner channels. They have implemented the web application using a bespoke approach based on Microsoft Azure and use Salesforce to manage any manual processing steps for quotes and orders as well as opportunity management and any quotes or orders originating via calls or field sales.

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