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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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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: 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 to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Transaction boundaries

Cross-system work cannot rely on one database transaction to guarantee an all-or-nothing outcome. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Idempotent integrations

A request may be delivered more than once; a dependable receiver must make repetition safe. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: 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 to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: API boundaries

An API should expose a stable business capability rather than mirror a database or a single user interface. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Customer identity across systems

Identity resolution is the foundation of a coherent customer view across Salesforce and connected platforms. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Master data decisions

A connected estate needs a clear answer to which system is authoritative for each important business fact. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Event-driven Salesforce

Events allow systems to announce meaningful change without controlling every downstream reaction. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Synchronous or asynchronous

Timing is an architectural decision: a process should wait only when the immediate response genuinely changes the next action. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Governance without gridlock: Integration ownership

Every integration needs an explicit owner for its business contract, data meaning and operational health. This retrospective daily note considers how to create control without slowing every useful change.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Integration observability

A connected process needs end-to-end visibility across platform and team boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Platform limits as architecture

Governor limits encourage efficient multi-tenant design and must influence architecture from the beginning. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Data virtualisation

External data can sometimes remain in its source while Salesforce presents it at the point of work. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Transaction boundaries

Cross-system work cannot rely on one database transaction to guarantee an all-or-nothing outcome. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Idempotent integrations

A request may be delivered more than once; a dependable receiver must make repetition safe. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Error recovery

Failure handling is part of the business process, not a technical appendix added after the happy path. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: API boundaries

An API should expose a stable business capability rather than mirror a database or a single user interface. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Customer identity across systems

Identity resolution is the foundation of a coherent customer view across Salesforce and connected platforms. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Master data decisions

A connected estate needs a clear answer to which system is authoritative for each important business fact. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Event-driven Salesforce

Events allow systems to announce meaningful change without controlling every downstream reaction. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Synchronous or asynchronous

Timing is an architectural decision: a process should wait only when the immediate response genuinely changes the next action. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

Failure-first thinking: Integration ownership

Every integration needs an explicit owner for its business contract, data meaning and operational health. This retrospective daily note considers what happens when dependencies, data or assumptions fail.

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Architecture

A practical architecture review: Integration observability

A connected process needs end-to-end visibility across platform and team boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers the questions an architecture review should ask before approving the design.

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Architecture

A practical architecture review: Platform limits as architecture

Governor limits encourage efficient multi-tenant design and must influence architecture from the beginning. This retrospective daily note considers the questions an architecture review should ask before approving the design.

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