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SalesforceIntegrationArchitecture

CDC vs Platform Events: A Decision Framework

Four event mechanisms, four sets of trade-offs. A decision matrix for picking the right one before you ship the wrong one.

13 min
ApexPerformanceArchitecture

Apex Governor Limits: Real Strategies for Enterprise Orgs

How architects design around governor limits in orgs processing millions of records — beyond the numbers Trailhead teaches.

10 min
SalesforceIntegrationArchitecture

Platform Events in Complex Orgs: Beyond Basic Pub/Sub

Most Platform Events tutorials cover the happy path. Here's what architects need to know about replay buffers, ordering, and high-volume event floods.

7 min
ApexArchitectureSalesforce

Apex Trigger Architecture: Handler Pattern Limits

The handler pattern is the industry default. Here's when large orgs follow it, when they can't, and what to do instead.

7 min
AgentforceIntegrationArchitecture

Agentforce and Legacy Systems: The Real Integration Layer

Giving an agent safe read/write access to an ERP or mainframe is harder than the demos suggest. Here's the architecture layer the documentation skips.

11 min
SalesforceArchitectureAgentforce

Salesforce Summer '26: What Actually Matters for Architects

A curated take on the Summer 26 features worth your time today, the ones that need another release to stabilize, and what's still mostly slideware.

11 min
AgentforceAIArchitecture

Agentforce in Production: Governance, AWUs, and What Breaks

Autonomous agents modifying records at scale need a governance layer. What AWU cost management, audit trails, and rollback strategies actually look like.

7 min
AgentforceAIArchitecture

Agentforce Multi-Agent Orchestration: Design Patterns

Summer '26 makes multi-agent orchestration GA. Here are the architecture patterns that hold up in production — and what still breaks silently.

8 min
IntegrationArchitectureDevOps

Salesforce Integration: Monitoring and What I Learned Breaking Things

An integration without observability is a black box. How to build visibility without turning the org into a log graveyard.

5 min
IntegrationApexArchitecture

Salesforce Integration: Implementing Without Creating Technical Debt

How to structure Apex and Platform Events so the integration holds up under volume, failures, and the next person who touches the code.

5 min
ApexCI/CDSpring 26

Salesforce Spring '26: RunRelevantTests and the End of Slow Deploys in Large Orgs

Spring '26 brings a real change for teams suffering through slow pipelines in large orgs: RunRelevantTests (Beta). Here's what changes and how to use the new @IsTest decorators.

3 min
IntegrationArchitectureSalesforce

Salesforce Integration: Patterns That Actually Work

Before writing a single line of code, you need to pick the right pattern. A map of the real options with the trade-offs the documentation leaves out.

5 min
AgentforceEinstein AIAI

What Agentforce Really Is — Without the Salesforce Marketing

After months working with the platform, here's what nobody tells you in the demo: what works well, where you'll hit walls, and what isn't ready for mission-critical use.

3 min