Salesforce offers a variety of API styles because no two integration scenarios are the same. Some systems need instant, real-time updates. Others deal with huge data volumes. Some workflows demand multi-step transactions, while certain UIs just need a few precisely nested fields.This guide walks you through the main Salesforce API...
Salesforce provides two powerful ways to move events in and out of the Event Bus — the modern Pub/Sub API and the Streaming API family (CometD/EMP). Both deliver events with at-least-once semantics and support replay, but they differ in transport protocols, performance, payload formats, and operational fit. Understanding these differences...
Salesforce offers two major ways to stream events across systems — Platform Events (PE) and Change Data Capture (CDC).Both use the Salesforce Event Bus with replay support, but they exist for different reasons. In short: Platform Events are custom, intentional messages you define to represent business actions or commands. Change...
In event-driven Salesforce architectures, messages often outlive the code that processes them. That’s why it’s critical to evolve schemas safely, trace events end-to-end, and handle duplicates without causing side effects. This guide walks you through practical approaches for versioned Platform Events, correlation/causation IDs, and idempotent consumers with deduplication, including compact...
In Salesforce development — whether you’re working with Apex, LWC, Visualforce, or external integrations — even small mistakes can create serious security risks. Poor handling of user input or secrets can lead to data exposure, code execution, or unauthorized access. To protect your Salesforce org, there are three essential security...
Building reliable Salesforce integrations means balancing security, user experience, and resilience. You want secure authentication, non-blocking calls for the UI, and smart retry logic that doesn’t break governor limits. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to achieve all three using: Named Credentials for configuration-based security OAuth/JWT for headless authentication...
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...
In Salesforce development, secure Apex means two things: Enforcing record access through with sharing, without sharing, or inherited sharing. Enforcing object and field-level permissions using CRUD/FLS checks. Apex doesn’t automatically verify these for you—you have to do it.The safest, most reliable pattern is to use with sharing by default and...
Salesforce Platform Cache (Org & Session) is an easy win when you want faster reads, fewer API calls, and smoother traffic spikes—without spinning up your own cache layer. The key is to use safe, predictable patterns (cache-aside/read-through, versioned keys, event-driven invalidation) so you don’t accidentally serve stale or inconsistent data....
Salesforce gives you two solid ways to find data: SOQL for precise, table-style queries, and SOSL for full-text, cross-object search. Layer on smart search tuning (filters, wildcards, snippets) to surface relevant results quickly. And for read-heavy orgs, Skinny Tables can help — but they have trade-offs and should be used...
