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 the benefits...
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...
Why Companies Fail To Attract Tech Talents
Every once in a while, one of these recruiting wisdom re-posts pops up in my Linkedin Feed that tells me to "hire for attitude, not for skills". I understand why most people like the idea. How awesome would it be, if you could hire virtually everyone and teach...
A Library To Mock SObject Records
If you plan to write solid unit tests in Salesforce, you won't get around mocking sobjects. A solid testing strategy needs a powerful library to mock sobject records. This allows you to write loosely coupled tests without the need to insert records into the database....
Solve „Unable To Lock Row“ Error In Tests
There seems to be a soft limit for E2E tests in Salesforce. Once you hit it, your tests will start to fail with the dreaded "unable to lock row" exception. This is one of the nastiest errors you can encounter, especially in tests. It's hard to debug and even harder to...
Salesforce SFDX CI With Rollback On Fail
There is one thing I love most about SFDX: The possibility to automatically rollback, if your continuous integration (CI) pipeline fails. This greatly decreases the probability for your developers to break your build pipeline. As a result, they are less likely having...
How Many Apex Triggers Per Object?
I recently came across a stone-old question: How many apex triggers per object are a best practice? Is the "single apex trigger per object" dogma still en vogue after the introduction of SFDX? Why Are Multiple Apex Triggers Per Object Considered Bad? A quick research...
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Ich arbeite seit mehreren Jahren als IT Manager, Administrator und Developer mit der Salesforce Plattform. Hier blogge ich ganz privat über (für mich) spannende Themen aus meinem Berufsalltag.