Salesforce Anti-Patterns: Create powerful Salesforce architectures by learning from common mistakes made on the platform

Avoid implementation failures and technical debt by mitigating anti-patterns in your Salesforce enterprise solutions using expert guidance and proven recommendations

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Key Features

• Build exemplary Salesforce architectures by studying anti-patterns that lead to failing systems
• Demonstrate deep architectural principles that you can apply in your Salesforce projects
• Identify common problems in Salesforce architectures and apply better architectural solutions

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Create a balanced system architecture by identifying common mistakes around on- and off-platform functionality and interfaces
• Avoid security problems that arise from anti-patterns on the Salesforce platform
• Spot common data architecture issues and discover intuitive ways to address them
• Avoid the dual traps of over- and under-customization in your solution architecture
• Explore common errors made in deployment setups, test strategy, and architecture governance
• Understand why bad communication patterns are so overlooked in architecture

Who this book is for

This book is for Salesforce architects, aspiring architects, developers, consultants, and decision makers who want to start making the right architectural choices or prepare for their journey to CTA. This book helps you gain a professional understanding of Salesforce and its building blocks. It is not code-centric, so you will benefit from both functional and technical experience, but a basic level of platform understanding is required.

Table of Contents

1. Why You Need to Understand Salesforce Anti-Patterns
2. How Not to Mess Up Your System Architecture
3. How Not to Get Confused about Security
4. What Not to Do about Data?
5. Unpicking Solution Architecture Troubles
6. Keeping Integration Straight
7. Keeping the Development Life Cycle from Going off Track
8. Communication without Mistranslation
9. Conclusion

Lars Malmqvist has spent the past 13 years working as an architect and CTO within the Salesforce ecosystem. He has worked on over 40 Salesforce implementations, ranging from simple out-of-the-box scenarios to advanced, bespoke, multi-cloud solutions for large global brands. He is a 29-time certified Salesforce CTA with degrees in anthropology, mathematics, and technology management, an MBA from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of York. Currently, he is a partner at Implement Consulting Group.