This is a small set of tools that I think we should have always at the back of our heads when designing enterprise-scale architecture.What are your magic tools? 1) ESB & ETL2) FormAssembly3) OwnBackup / Odaseva4) Chargent5) X-Files Pro6) Conga + DocuSign7) Quip & Slack8) Marketing Cloud9) Okta / Ping10) Salesforce Voice11) Git + Provar …
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Working on my bundle-functionality for the CPQ app I need to get Info about three related objects to build my bundle: Product2, PricebookEntry and Configured_Product__c. I could achieve that using 2-3 Queries and a bunch of Loops and Maps. I’m a huge fan of avoiding maps by using subqueries instead. Advantages of subqueries:1) Build in …
We all have to make decisions every day, some big, some small. To help me get to the right decision, I try to follow a few simple principles.I’m in no way perfect and following these principles all the time. I try to remember and follow them as often as possible.Maybe some of you would like …
Back when I started to work on my AppExchange app Simple-CPQ I had a vision: “Make CPQ fabulous”. I heavily focused on UI and UX while ignoring almost all basic CPQ functionality. My theory was: Most users only need an easy way to add and edit products.” -> I’m partially wrong there. While I got …
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Disclaimer: I know I’m not the first one to come up with that, but I keep on forgetting about it. I wrote that post to remind my future self. Last week, Aaron asked me to add a “Mass Export Article PDF Functionality”. The requirement is: “As a Business User, I can define a list of …
Following up on Ed Ralph suggestion, cleaning has to be done regularly. Instead of cleaning, I went for performance optimization. In less than 3h I could optimize the execution time by ~35%. Going forward I’ll try to make Performance-Friday a regular thing. Below you find my notes and what I did, Starting Performance: ~573 MS …
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Today’s CTA coaching focuses on telling a business story using the system landscape and data model. I had high expectations for Neha, but even these have been surpassed. Thanks, Neha for coming forward, I’m sure you will do great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZZIBuq4J3s
You can now bring fun to your partners and customers as well.Quite some time ago Deepshikha Rajput requested Experience support for Fabulous Confetti. Below you find a short summary of my experience coding in Experience. Make sure you check out the latest version and let me know if you find any issues or improvements. And promised, the …
There’s a magical moment when you’ve completed your pre-requisite certs for your CTA. You are now a System and Application architect, amazing! Today I want to share my thoughts on the steps after you cleared the pre-requisites.Disclaimer: There are so many different ways to go about it, this is my personal opinion, go and find …
We can all learn from each other. Admins bring qualities, developers bring qualities, architects bring qualities, BAs bring qualities …Lilith and I had the honor to present 7 things we think Admins can learn from Developers. Code Formatting Naming Conventions Test Driven Development Solution DesignVersion ControlSOQL Think like a machine Don’t forget to also check …
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