July 2021 Sneak Peek
In July, we’ll be talking about enterprise level challenges facing architects today and proven approaches to be successful. Everything from enterprise architecture methodologies to drive technology decisions with business-first conversations, architectures to empower multiple teams to move fast and not break (anyone else’s) things, strategies to tackle technical debt, enterprise-level integration patterns, and what’s next from the wildly popular Salesforce Operating, Governance & Architecture Framework (SOGAF). There’s a lot ahead in July, and we’ll be updating this post as resources go live.
Let’s take a quick look at some of what you can expect.
On the Blog:
- Enterprise Architecture Inside Salesforce: Brett Colbert, VP of Enterprise Architecture, gives an overview of the seven-step enterprise architecture methodology used by Salesforce Business Technology teams focused on business value. See why you need a similar approach to enterprise architecture and how you can shift the conversation from technology-first to business capabilities.
- Building an Asynchronous Integration Layer to Salesforce with Heroku and Kafka: Learn how businesses can create data streams that enrich, curate, and even transform data across all their Salesforce Orgs using Heroku with Kafka. In a partnership with Radialspark, Salesforce Technical Architect Ryan Cox reviews a previous solution complete with design patterns that help companies get employees the data they need, when they need it.
- Domain-Driven Design on Salesforce: Salesforce Program Architect, Denis Krizanovic, covers the benefits and trade-offs of applying Domain-Driven Design techniques — like Bounded Context and Shared Kernel — when building, deploying, and maintaining a multitude of apps within a single Salesforce instance.
- Tackling Technical Debt on Salesforce: Let’s face it, we all struggle with tech debt. In this post, a team of Technical Architects from Salesforce Customer Success will help you identify the source and types of technical debt along with guidance for removing and reducing it over time.
- We’ll also have Business Transformation Architect, Martin Griffiths walk us through why he created The Salesforce Operating, Governance & Architecture Framework (SOGAF), and what new resources you can expect from this seven-part framework in the future to help your organization increase efficiency, coordination, transparency, and agility.
On the Architect Digital Home:
We announced two amazing new resources below at TDX ’21 last week. They’re live on the website now:
- Architect’s Guide to Data Integration: This guide walks through the landscape of data integration tools available from Salesforce complete with recommendations for the tools you should use to access, synchronize, and share data between Salesforce and external systems.
- Diagram Kit of Parts: The Salesforce Diagrams Kit of Parts is a reusable set of components that architects can use to build and customize diagrams in a common, standardized way. These parts are the building blocks for a shared visual language for Salesforce diagrams.
Other Highlights:
- Architect Academy: Peer to Peer Fundraising Strategies (Trailhead Live): Learn about the Peer to Peer fundraising tools available to Nonprofit Organizations to capture relevant data, build constituent journeys, and track Engagement Metrics.
- Architect Academy: Kardias Journey to Advanced Analytics (Trailhead Live): Discover how a children’s hospital in Mexico City is using Tableau CRM to interpret their complex data model and predict trends that will help increase the likelihood of success during heart surgeries. Second broadcast here
- Architect Academy: Social Engagement (Trailhead Live): Get up-to-speed on the ‘ins and outs’ of Social Engagement strategy — including the various stages, an implementation framework, and which tools to consider based on your goals.
- Attend Learning Labs from the B2B Solution Architect Program: Learning Labs are tactical enablement sessions focused on teaching the foundational skills and practitioner mindset required to implement use cases. Register today to secure your spot.
What You Can Do Now:
Get caught up on TDX ’21 with TrailheaDX ’21 for Architects, Introducing Salesforce Diagrams, and the exciting new Salesforce + LucidChart announcement. In case TrailheaDX consumed your June, here are the other posts you should also catch up on:
