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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

Keeping Integration Straight

This chapter looks at anti-patterns around your integrations with other systems. The first part of the chapter looks at anti-patterns around the integration landscape and integration patterns, the second part looks at what can go wrong in the design and use of interfaces, and the third zooms in on problems with integration styles. As always, we end the chapter by distilling the key takeaways.

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

  • How not to overly complicate your systems landscape by misusing technologies in ways they weren’t intended to
  • When it is and isn’t appropriate to create custom services for integrations
  • How to avoid common failures in designing interfaces
  • How to use integration patterns appropriately

After completing this chapter, you will have a good idea about how to better select integration patterns and structure your integration architecture by learning about various...