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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Planning the migration: Bulk-safe code
Salesforce transactions may process many records even when the original change appears singular. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Selective SOQL
Query design must reflect data distribution and access paths, not only functional correctness. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Asynchronous Apex
Queueable, batch and scheduled work solve different execution and scale requirements. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Trigger discipline
Triggers should coordinate record-change behaviour without becoming a hidden application framework. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Integration observability
A connected process needs end-to-end visibility across platform and team boundaries. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Platform limits as architecture
Governor limits encourage efficient multi-tenant design and must influence architecture from the beginning. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Idempotent integrations
A request may be delivered more than once; a dependable receiver must make repetition safe. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Event-driven Salesforce
Events allow systems to announce meaningful change without controlling every downstream reaction. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: 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 move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily notePlanning the migration: Integration ownership
Every integration needs an explicit owner for its business contract, data meaning and operational health. This retrospective daily note considers how to move from the current state without losing service or trusted information.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Backup and recovery
Data protection requires tested recovery objectives, not only confidence that a backup exists. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Deployment observability
Delivery metrics should show whether change is becoming safer and faster, not merely count deployments. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Environment strategy
Each Salesforce environment should have a clear purpose, data posture and refresh rhythm. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Data-quality ownership
Data quality is an operating responsibility supported by technology, not a cleanup project owned only by administrators. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Flow governance
Flow makes automation accessible, which increases the need for shared design and lifecycle standards. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
Read daily noteAdoption is architecture: Permission-set strategy
A scalable access model grants capability through composable permission sets rather than profile sprawl. This retrospective daily note considers how the user experience and operating model determine whether the capability is used.
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