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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: 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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Containing technical debt: API version discipline

API versions influence behaviour and should move through the estate as a managed engineering decision. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Flow and Apex boundaries

Declarative and programmatic automation are complementary when their responsibilities are explicit. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Salesforce code review

Code review is an architectural control as well as a defect check. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Application logging

Logs should describe business context and decision points, not produce an unstructured stream of debug statements. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Custom metadata as configuration

Custom metadata can move controlled business variation out of code and into deployable configuration. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: 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 to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Test data design

Good test data communicates the business scenario and remains independent of org state. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Meaningful Apex tests

Tests should protect business behaviour and failure handling, not merely raise coverage percentage. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Containing technical debt: Bulk-safe code

Salesforce transactions may process many records even when the original change appears singular. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Containing technical debt: Selective SOQL

Query design must reflect data distribution and access paths, not only functional correctness. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Containing technical debt: 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 to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Containing technical debt: Asynchronous Apex

Queueable, batch and scheduled work solve different execution and scale requirements. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Containing technical debt: Trigger discipline

Triggers should coordinate record-change behaviour without becoming a hidden application framework. This retrospective daily note considers how to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Containing technical debt: 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 to prevent a short-term compromise from becoming permanent architecture.

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Development

Measuring what matters: API version discipline

API versions influence behaviour and should move through the estate as a managed engineering decision. This retrospective daily note considers the operational evidence that shows whether the design is creating value.

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Development

Measuring what matters: Flow and Apex boundaries

Declarative and programmatic automation are complementary when their responsibilities are explicit. This retrospective daily note considers the operational evidence that shows whether the design is creating value.

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Development

Measuring what matters: Salesforce code review

Code review is an architectural control as well as a defect check. This retrospective daily note considers the operational evidence that shows whether the design is creating value.

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Development

Measuring what matters: Application logging

Logs should describe business context and decision points, not produce an unstructured stream of debug statements. This retrospective daily note considers the operational evidence that shows whether the design is creating value.

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