August 2021 Sneak Peek

In August our focus is all about scale and performance challenges architects encounter when solutioning. Over the next month we’ll be sharing how you can ensure your solutions are truly designed to scale the way you intend them to. We’ll also highlight key considerations architects need to be aware of when choosing a data backup solution, an important topic regardless of your scale.

Let’s take a quick look at some of what you can expect.

On the blog:

• How to Scale Test on Salesforce: Trust is a key tenant of the Salesforce Platform. But nothing can erode trust faster than an application that doesn’t deliver consistent performance. Join Anand Vardhan and Shainesh Baheti from the Frontier Scale team at Salesforce to learn when you should be scale testing and how to scale test using the scale engineering lifecycle so that you can anticipate performance issues and maintain your user’s trust.
• Why Quality and Quantity of Test Data is Important for Performance & Scale Testing: Generating test data with production equivalent context and volumes is challenging, but it’s important in order to have realistic performance and scale testing. In this blog post Shainesh Baheti will highlight the importance of test data and detail the challenges faced when using synthetic data creation.
• 6 Keys to Implementing Salesforce B2C at Scale: What’s better than learning from your own mistakes? Learning from Senior Program Architect Leandro Barion’s first-hand experience in this blog post that details hard won lessons following the go-live of a large scale B2C project.
• 5 Things Architects Overlook When Choosing a Data Backup Solution: Good architects know that data residency, data encryption, restoration turnaround time and platform availability are all important topics to consider when evaluating a data backup platform solution. But what other questions should you be asking? Solution Architect, Arun Sood will highlight five key considerations often overlooked by architects when selecting a data backup solution for Salesforce.

On the Architect Digital Home:

We’re releasing so many new resources in August that you might miss some! Here’s what to look forward to:

• Reference Architecture Gallery — Why reinvent the wheel? The Architect Digital Home now has a Reference Architecture Gallery with prebuilt diagrams and artifacts. In August we’ll be adding a Retail Banking Industry Blueprint, Retail Banking Reference Architecture, and Retail Banking Solution Architecture. We will also be adding a Consumer Goods Industry Blueprint, Consumer Goods Reference Architecture, and Consumer Goods Solution Architecture. Stay tuned for more additions!
• Design Patterns — Find best practices and solution guidance with 10 new design patterns that support the retail and consumer goods architecture artifacts recently released above.

Other highlights:

• Architect Academy: Salesforce CMS (Trailhead Live): Join Tom Leddy to learn about the benefits of Salesforce CMS, along with considerations for content creators and developers, as well as a handy workaround that will allow you to sort CMS content by fields other than the standard publish date.
• Architect Academy: Approaching Security — Part 1 (Trailhead Live): Tom Leddy and Gokul Seshadri share foundational security concepts, including risk mitigation, compliance, single vs multi-org scenarios, and the role security plays in your organization’s governance model.

What you can do now:

Get caught up on the July blog highlights: Building an Asynchronous Integration Layer to Salesforce with Heroku and Kafka and our two-part series on tackling technical debt. Also be sure to watch Architect Academy: Social Engagement on-demand on Trailhead Live.