Salesforce Platform Events — The Full Guide

All you need to know about Salesforce Platform Events

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Platform Events are Salesforce’s powerful answer to the trending world of Event-driven Architecture. It enables decoupling of applications & solutions and implements a modern pub-sub architecture for usage inside & outside of Salesforce.

This story summarizes important resources about Salesforce Streaming, Pub-Sub, and the different Salesforce technologies like Platform Events, Custom Events, Change Data Capture, and Push Topics. It will be continuously updated.

If you miss a topic, just drop a comment. I will do some research and add it.

Platform Event Basics

If you don’t know what Platform Events or Event-driven Architectures are or you need a refresher, follow along with the below resources.

• Salesforce Event-Driven Architecture
• The New Salesforce Event Bus
• How Apache Kafka Inspired the Salesforce Platform Event Architecture
• Platform Event Basics (not published yet, writing in progress)
• Differences between Platform Events, Custom Events, Change Data Capture Events & Push Topic Events (not published yet, writing in progress)