Platform

This video post provides a technical overview of the Platform Cache feature added in the Winter ’16 release.

Environment Hub was announced back in August 2012 and was initially made available as a Pilot feature of the Winter ’13 release. This post follows up (some 2 years later) on my initial interest in understanding the utility Environment Hub delivers in the context of environment/user management. Environment Hub – What is it? In simple […]

Slightly depressing to be saying this in late August but Winter is almost upon us in the shape of the Winter ’14 (or v29.0) release. The Winter ’14 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. Increased Sandbox Storage Limits. Developer sandboxes now […]

The concept of any-org development is an interesting one. The strict definition, to my mind, being the development of a set of components (perhaps packaged) that are designed and coded specifically to install and function in any Salesforce org. This is typically an ISV concern, where testing and maintaining a single-code base can be highly […]

Understanding how the Salesforce Query Optimiser (SQO) works is fundamental to delivering performance at the data layer. Good practice in this regard, as part of an optimised physical data model implementation, is key to delivering efficient data access at the application layer. In short, certain fields are indexed by default, custom indexes can be added […]

This post outlines my preferred approach to managing parallel developments on the Salesforce platform in what I refer to as the Converged Programme Model. I readily acknowledge that there’s a multitude of ways to accomplish this each with it’s own subjective merits. Before adopting a parallel work-stream model take the time to understand the technical […]

The Summer ’13 release notes are now available, find below a brief introduction to 10 Force.com highlights (in no order of significance). 1. New Setup interface. Clean new interface for the Setup area, with a top-level “Setup” link in the header region. Administration and Personal settings are now separate, the latter is accessed from a […]