Expert guidance and proven recommendations on avoiding implementation failures and technical debt by mitigating anti-patterns in your Salesforce enterprise solutions
Key Features
- Understand how great Salesforce architectures can be created by studying antipatterns that lead to failing systems
- Demonstrate deep architectural principles that the reader can apply in their day-to-day work or exam preparation
- Identify and correct common problems in Salesforce architectures across all the CTA domains and instead apply better solutions
Book Description
Salesforce Anti-Patterns teaches you how to spot errors in the Salesforce pattern that can seem like a good idea at the time but will end up costing you dearly. The book will enable Salesforce architects and developers to understand how great Salesforce architectures can be created by studying the anti-patterns and solutions to problems that seem like a good idea but inevitably lead to serious problems that are commonly found in Salesforce implementations. While there are several books on the market that start from the question, “How do I create a great Salesforce architecture?” and proceed to a solution from there, this book will instead start from the question “What tends to go wrong with Salesforce architectures?” and proceed to a solution from there.
This book will teach you how to identify and mitigate anti-patterns in the technical domains of system architecture, data architecture, and security architecture along with the anti-patterns in the functional domain of solution architecture as well as for integration architecture. You will learn about common anti-patterns affecting your development process and governance and, finally, spot common problems in how architects communicate their solutions.
By the end of this book, you will have gained new confidence in your ability to architect and communicate solutions on the Salesforce platform while avoiding the common mistakes that affect many solutions.
What you will learn
- Create a balanced system architecture by identifying common mistakes around on and off-platform functionality, and interfaces into other areas like reporting or mobile
- Steps to avoid security problems that arise from anti-patterns on the Salesforce platform
- Diagnose common data architecture issues and discover how some intuitive ways to address them can lead to disaster
- Avoid the dual traps of over-and-under customization in your Salesforce solution architecture.
- Common ways to avoid during architect integrations that can lead to issues over time
- Common errors in deployment setups, test strategy, and architecture governance and how to overcome them.
- Understand why bad communication patterns are some of the most overlooked in architecture
Who This Book Is For
Salesforce architects, aspiring architects, developers, consultants, and decision-makers interested in making the right architectural choices or preparing for the journey to CTA. They need a professional understanding of Salesforce and its building blocks. The book will not be code-centric, so that knowledge can come from both functional and technical experience, but some level of platform understanding is required.
Table of Contents
- Why Do We Need to Understand Salesforce Anti-Patterns?
- How to Not Mess Up Your System Architecture?
- How Not to Get Confused about Security?
- What Not to Do about Data?
- Unpicking Solution Architecture Troubles
- Keeping Integration straight
- Keeping the Development Lifecycle from going off track
- Communication without mistranslation
- Conclusion
Lars Malmqvist has spent the past 16 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 33-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.
