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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I’ve been doing some kind of product management for many years now and keep on making the same mistake.I keep forgetting: What if the User wants to cancel the operation? It’s easy to think about a process from start to finish, always moving forward. During development and testing, canceling or going back doesn’t matter but …
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Summary: We all know, that experience is necessary for being a great professional or passing the CTA. In my opinion, too much experience can be a trap. Being very experienced can make you rely on old knowledge, experience and hinder your openness to listen. All the following apply to project works as well as the …
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As most of you know, I’m not a full-time coder, but see myself as an Admin and Architect. Releasing 4 apps over the last couple of months was quite a challenge. As every other AppExchange developer I talked to agreed: “Coding apps make you a better Developer.” Today I want to share my 5 main learnings. …
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We are in the business of collecting data and facilitating business processes. Today I want to focus on the data side of things. Some of our clients obsess over customer data. Many of us heard the story of “Walmart can predict pregnancies based on purchasing data”. The take-away from these stories for many of our …
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Berlin is a dirty city, wherever you go you see trash. We, locals, tell each other that the tourists are to blame. It’s a convenient explanation, it’s not us, it’s the others. Nothing we can or must do about it. Suddenly, starting with the first lock-down, all tourists were gone. Almost 12 months without any …
