The new HTTP Callout action beta available in Salesforce Flows promises a low-code solution for calling external web services. I was interested about how it would handle unreliable services and so I tried it against a service that randomly fails. Update: I have created a newer article that shows how…

Salesforce & Microsoft together are a common choice of vendors (Salesforce CRM, Office 365 & Azure) for many customers, although the integration options mostly rely on open standards and public internet connectivity between the two clouds. This article examines how to establish a link between them via a secure tunnel. Azure Web Services …

Inside four years I have passed the 9 exams on the Salesforce Architect pyramid (including the two optional Admin and Experience Cloud exams), and now have both Salesforce Certified System Architect and Salesforce Certified Application Architect. The following are some observations along the way: Certifications give you much more than…

Microsoft makes it very straightforward to build services accessing Postgresql on Azure, however there are a few learning for someone (such as me) who have previously done this with ASP.NET, IIS and SQL Server. Performance & Load Testing A single Azure Function calling Postgres may perform really well. However if…

I’ve always loved the idea of remote working. Taking a day or so here and there to work from home without the distraction of the office or the exhaustion of a commute. So I should be pretty happy with the current state of remote working? On LinkedIn I’ve seen plenty…

I just passed the Salesforce Lifecycle & Deployment Architect exam in August 2022. Overall is was probably the easiest Architect exam I have taken so far, and one where much of the subject matter was casually absorbed by me through my career rather than deliberate study. …

Some quick Salesforce Winter ’23 release highlights for Developers: Dataweave in Apex (Developer Preview) — The MuleSoft Anypoint data transformation language is a far better way to make data transformations than writing logic in Apex. …

Update 22nd August 2022 : It is actually possible to configure the below in Azure itself rather than adding code. I will add a new post on that later. It is fairly straightforward to get Azure Functions working with Okta authentication, however the blog post on the Okta site doesn’t…

Salesforce has some good mechanisms for querying data, however limitations on the platform become apparent when you want advanced query functions that have no equivalent in SOQL or SOSL. For example, currently searching for ‘Joan Arp’ will yield one result from Global Search with a very close match: I have…