A Story About Failure In Software Projects

This is a story about failure. Think about anything that can go wrong when building software. In our last project, we made almost every mistake you can think of. But this is also a story about how to learn from failure. And I learned what separates good management...

Organize Metadata For Scalability

A common challenge when designing a Salesforce CI pipeline is how to organize the metadata. Which components should be put into a package? Which components are better kept in the famous „happy soup“? To solve this challenge, an architect has to understand...

Package-Based CI with CircleCI and SFDX

Today I want to dive deeper into package-based deployment processes with SFDX. Interestingly enough, there are very little resources out there that explain how to set up a continuous integration (CI) pipelines to deploy a second-generation (2nd-gen) unlocked package...

How To Integrate Prettier In Your CI

I am a big fan of Prettier and we have been using it for almost 6 months now in all our SFDX projects. A local install of Prettier is great, but the real magic happens when you integrate it into a CI job. This post shows how to integrate Prettier into CircleCI (but...

A Next-Generation CircleCI Orb For SFDX

We have been using SFDX and CircleCI for quite some time now to automate our Salesforce deployments. Over time, our bash scripts to manage packages, verify Scratch Orgs, and scale test execution grew more and more in complexity. Now is the time to put everything into...