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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

Muddling up the integration landscape

This section covers two anti-patterns that in different ways can create havoc in your integration landscape. We will start by looking at how not to use middleware.

Middleware in name only (MINO)

Using middleware to create point-to-point connections rather than using its extended capabilities

Example

PumpCo is a large B2B company that specializes in the production of pumps for industrial production. It operates in more than 30 markets and has historically underinvested in IT systems and used largely manual processes for sales that have varied substantially between countries and product lines.

Over the past year, it has started to implement Salesforce Sales Cloud and CPQ to drive standardization of the sales process globally. Their one major IT platform that has received substantial investment in the past is SAP and, fundamentally, SAP runs all key parts of the business today.

Michelle is brought in as an integration architect...