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Salesforce Anti-Patterns: Build resilient Salesforce solutions using expert advice to create robust and efficient programs 2nd Edition
Author(s): Lars Malmqvist (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2025
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 252 pages
- ISBN-10: 1835467849
- ISBN-13: 9781835467848
Book Description
Prevent common pitfalls in your Salesforce solutions by optimizing your Salesforce architecture with the help of this updated guide
Key Features
- Build a solid foundation in Salesforce architecture to troubleshoot and enhance your implementations
- Develop expertise in designing and implementing complex Salesforce architectures
- Explore common mistakes in Salesforce anti-patterns and their impact on program performance
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
While Salesforce is a powerful platform, it is prone to common pitfalls that can result in suboptimal performance, increased costs, and reduced user satisfaction. Known as anti-patterns, these problems can arise from design flaws, poor implementation choices, or a lack of understanding of best practices.
Written by a seasoned Salesforce professional and 33-time certified Salesforce Certified Technical Architect, this revised edition will teach you how to identify and avoid common issues, optimize your Salesforce architecture, and ensure successful implementation. This second edition is updated with a comprehensive exploration of Salesforce, along with the addition of the most common Salesforce anti-patterns, providing in-depth analysis and practical solutions. These key learnings will further refine your skills to help you build more robust, scalable, and efficient Salesforce architectures. The chapters offer an expanded coverage of emerging technology trends such as AI and DevOps, updated examples, and additional case studies to ensure that you have the latest information and insights.
By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the confidence and expertise needed to design and implement effective Salesforce solutions.
What you will learn
- Discover common architectural mistakes and learn how anti-patterns can improve your architectural skills
- Find out how to design Salesforce data models the right way
- Set up data governance to prevent common issues
- Identify common data architecture issues and discover innovative ways to address them
- Explore common errors made in deployment setups, test strategy, and architecture governance
- Master the art of leveraging AI in integration architectures
Who this book is for
This book is for Salesforce architects, aspiring architects, developers, consultants, and decision makers who want to start making the right architectural choices or prepare for their journey to CTA. This book is not code-centric, so you will benefit from both functional and technical experience, but a basic level of platform understanding is required.
Table of Contents
- Why Do We Need to Understand Salesforce Anti-Patterns?
- How to Keep Your System Architecture Clean
- How Not to Get Confused about Security
- What Not to Do about Data
- Unpicking Solution Architecture Troubles
- Keeping Integration Straight
- Keeping the Development Life Cycle from Going Off Track
- Communication without Mistranslation
- Conclusion
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The second edition of Salesforce Anti-Patterns is more relevant now than ever. As AI and automation take center stage, clean architecture is no longer just a best practice—it’s a necessity for ensuring resilient, scalable, and future-proof solutions.
This book, written by an industry expert with deep Salesforce experience, goes beyond theory. It exposes common anti-patterns across the seven Salesforce architectural domains, helping architects and developers recognize and avoid pitfalls before they derail a program.
What makes this book stand out? It is concise, practical, and even entertaining — a rarity in technical literature these days. For those pursuing the Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA) certification, this book is as critical for understanding what not to design as it is for knowing what to propose.
If you’re serious about building scalable and maintainable Salesforce solutions, this book belongs on your shelf.”
Kristian Margaryan Jørgensen, Co-founder and CEO at GoElephant, Author of The Salesforce E2E Implementation Handbook
“This isn’t just a book about technical best practices—it’s about understanding the long-term consequences of our design choices. If you’ve been building on Salesforce for years, this book will feel like a much-needed dose of truth. Highly recommended!”
Rob Cowell, DevOps Advocate at Gearset, Author of Salesforce DevOps for Architects
“If you are a Salesforce Developer or a Salesforce Architects this SHOULD be on your reading list. Even if you are in another role such as Salesforce Admin, Business Analyst, QA – this book has some great insights which will help you build a holistic understanding of patterns and anti-patterns.”
Gaurav Khetarpal, Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame, Mulesoft Ambassador
About the Author
Lars Malmqvist has spent the past 16 years working as an architect and CTO within the Salesforce ecosystem. He has worked on over 40 Salesforce implementations, ranging from simple out-of-the-box scenarios to advanced, bespoke, multi-cloud solutions for large global brands. He is a 33-time certified Salesforce CTA with degrees in anthropology, mathematics, and technology management, an MBA from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of York. Currently, he is a partner at Implement Consulting Group.
