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Salesforce daily archive

730 days of practical thinking.

One retrospective note for every day from 2 September 2024 to 1 September 2026.

Archive dates organise the subject history. They do not claim the notes were originally published on those dates.

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Security by design: Critical update review

Critical updates can change security or runtime behaviour and deserve ownership before enforcement dates arrive. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Seasonal regression testing

Regression testing should concentrate on high-impact journeys, custom automation and integration boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Sandbox preview planning

Preview sandboxes provide a controlled window to evaluate upcoming platform behaviour before production changes. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Release readiness

Each seasonal Salesforce release is a change programme, even when most features are enabled automatically and safely. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: API version discipline

API versions influence behaviour and should move through the estate as a managed engineering decision. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Flow and Apex boundaries

Declarative and programmatic automation are complementary when their responsibilities are explicit. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Salesforce code review

Code review is an architectural control as well as a defect check. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Application logging

Logs should describe business context and decision points, not produce an unstructured stream of debug statements. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Custom metadata as configuration

Custom metadata can move controlled business variation out of code and into deployable configuration. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Security enforcement in Apex

Apex can execute with privileges that require developers to enforce the intended access model deliberately. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Test data design

Good test data communicates the business scenario and remains independent of org state. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Meaningful Apex tests

Tests should protect business behaviour and failure handling, not merely raise coverage percentage. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Bulk-safe code

Salesforce transactions may process many records even when the original change appears singular. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Selective SOQL

Query design must reflect data distribution and access paths, not only functional correctness. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Lightning component boundaries

A Lightning Web Component should own a coherent interaction rather than accumulate an entire business process. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Asynchronous Apex

Queueable, batch and scheduled work solve different execution and scale requirements. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Trigger discipline

Triggers should coordinate record-change behaviour without becoming a hidden application framework. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Apex service layers

A service layer gives business operations a stable home outside triggers, controllers and transport-specific code. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Integration observability

A connected process needs end-to-end visibility across platform and team boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Platform limits as architecture

Governor limits encourage efficient multi-tenant design and must influence architecture from the beginning. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Data virtualisation

External data can sometimes remain in its source while Salesforce presents it at the point of work. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Transaction boundaries

Cross-system work cannot rely on one database transaction to guarantee an all-or-nothing outcome. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Idempotent integrations

A request may be delivered more than once; a dependable receiver must make repetition safe. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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Security by design: Error recovery

Failure handling is part of the business process, not a technical appendix added after the happy path. This retrospective daily note considers how access, data exposure and accountability shape the implementation.

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