When Salesforce consumes external events (for example, Platform Events published by another system), your integration logic must be resilient. Failures will happen — networks time out, APIs throttle, or payloads contain invalid data. A robust event consumer does two key things: It retries transient errors safely without looping forever. It...
In Salesforce, almost everything — DML, SOQL, triggers, and flows — runs inside a single transaction. That’s powerful because it ensures data consistency: if something fails and isn’t handled, the entire transaction rolls back automatically. But in the real world, not everything needs to be all-or-nothing. Sometimes you want partial...
In Salesforce Apex, building a reliable error-handling strategy means doing more than just catching exceptions. You need to: Fail fast to block bad data before it hits the database, Use custom exceptions that make intent clear, Tag each transaction with a correlation ID for traceability, and Emit structured telemetry for...
Salesforce follows a strict, predictable process when saving data. Each step is carefully designed to ensure that operations either succeed completely or fail safely—without leaving your data corrupted. These core concepts—Order of Execution, Transactions, Locking, Savepoints, and Partial Success—form the foundation for reliable automation and error handling. Together, they give...
