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Design Headless AI Experiences on Salesforce
Learn a composition framework that helps you match the right AI experience to the right user, without leaving your platform's governance umbrella.
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Livestream series
Join Think Like an Architect: How to Decide Between API and MCP.
Learn how to decide when REST APIs are the right integration pattern and when Salesforce-hosted MCP servers are the better fit for a Headless 360 architecture.
Video series
Learn how Agentforce Vibes can add architectural value for Salesforce teams.
While it's highly praised for developer code generation, Agentforce Vibes is also a massive game-changer for architects looking to accelerate org discovery and assess technical debt.
Blog post
Headless doesn’t mean ungoverned: how trust works when agents call Salesforce.
Understand how Salesforce authenticates, authorizes, and audits agents connecting through Salesforce Headless 360, and how to apply the right trust model for your agentic architecture.
Fundamentals
Discover Data 360 Clean Rooms.
Understand what clean rooms are and why they matter now.
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Well-Architected Framework
Build trusted, easy, adaptable solutions.
Architecture Fundamentals
Learn the basics of architecting with Salesforce.
Decision Guides
Choose the right Salesforce tool.
Diagrams
Create and find artifacts for your solutions.
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Explore Key Resources for Architects
Build Your Architectural Foundation.
What is a Salesforce Architect
Learn who a Salesforce Architect is and how you can start your architect career journey.
The Agentforce 360 Platform - Transformed for Tomorrow
Get an under-the-hood look at the latest Agentforce 360 Platform innovations.
Salesforce Architect Digest
Discover a monthly roundup of curated content, events, and resources to support Salesforce Architects.
Think Like an Architect
Learn how to design future-ready solutions in our new livestream series.
The Architect Mindset: Designing for Scale in an Evolving Ecosystem
Learn why adopting a strategic architect mindset is increasingly becoming essential in an ecosystem where complexity, AI, and technical debt are converging.
Architect the Agentic Enterprise.
IT Architecture of the Agentic Enterprise
Discover the IT architecture enterprises will need to fully capture the value of an agentic workforce.
The Agent Development Lifecycle
Dive deep into a distinct methodology tailored for the unique complexities of building autonomous agents.
Enterprise Agentic Architecture and Design Patterns
Discover a pattern-based methodology for designing and building agentic solutions.
Agentic Patterns and Implementation with Agentforce
Explore the primary types of agents and get an architectural blueprint for building those agents with Agentforce.
Data 360 Architecture
Learn about Data 360 architecture: its principles, capabilities, use cases, and key differentiators.
Design Secure, Multi-Cloud Solutions.
Integration Patterns
Discover integration patterns that address key scenarios and determine which pattern best fits your needs.
Data Integration Decision Guide
Explore the landscape of data integration tools available from Salesforce.
Data 360 Interoperability Decision Guide
Evaluate the optimal strategy to integrate Data 360 with other platforms.
Data 360 Provisioning Decision Guide
Understand the Data 360 provisioning decisions you make to lay a firm groundwork to move your business forward.
Power the Agentic Enterprise with Salesforce and Informatica
Learn how Salesforce and Informatica enable a trusted data foundation for autonomous action.
Explore the Salesforce Architecture Blog.
Discover thought leadership, insights, and best practices by architects, for architects.
How Salesforce Headless 360 Changes Integration Architecture
Explore how Salesforce Headless 360 fits into established integration patterns and what shifts when agents become consumers of your org.
Submit Your Architect Session: The Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation Is Open - Salesforce
The Dreamforce 2026 Call for Participation is now open. Submit your session proposal by May 27, 2026 and share your architect expertise with the world's most engaged technical audience.
Choose the Right Agentforce Integration Pattern: API, MCP, or A2A
Compare API, MCP, and A2A to choose the right Agentforce integration pattern. Learn when to use each for scalable, secure agent design.
Domain-Driven Design for Salesforce Solution Architecture
Apply Domain-Driven Design to build composable, well-architected Salesforce solutions with improved clarity, modularity, and scalability.
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Discover tips, demos, and best practices from expert architects.
Livestream
Think Like an Architect: Design a High-Scale Multi-Cloud Incident Journey
Learn how to design an end-to-end solution for personalized outage communications that scale using a multi-cloud approach.
Livestream
Think Like an Architect: Aligning Integration Patterns to Use Cases
Learn how architects translate complex requirements into the right integration patterns.
Video
An Architect's Guide to Event Monitoring
Learn how Event Monitoring helps you triage issues quickly with data-backed decisions, ensuring an extra layer of security, compliance, and control for your Salesforce implementation.
Build healthy solutions with the Well-Architected Framework.
The Well-Architected Framework helps architects build trusted, easy, and adaptable solutions.
Trusted
Trusted solutions protect the business, users, and data ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, and reliable by design.
Ensure only the right users and systems have access, while protecting data from exposure, misuse, and threats.
Design solutions that meet legal, regulatory, ethical, and accessibility standards across industries and regions.
Build architectures that remain available, performant, and resilient as demand, scale, and conditions change.
Easy
Easy solutions deliver value fast, ensuring solutions are intentional, automated, and engaging by design.
Design solutions that prioritize business value, balance trade offs, and remain understandable and maintainable over time.
Enable work to happen faster and at scale by reducing manual effort and enforcing consistency through healthy automation.
Create intuitive, user-centered experiences that help users succeed and drive adoption.
Adaptable
Adaptable solutions evolve with the business, ensuring solutions are resilient and composable by design.
Design architectures that absorb change and recovery quickly from disruption.
Build modular solutions that can be adjusted, extended, or replaced independently without destabilizing the system.
Skill up with Trailhead.
Module
Salesforce Architect: Quick Look
Learn about the Salesforce Architect role and the skills you need to succeed.
Career Path
Build Your Architect Career on Salesforce
Learn about the critical role Salesforce Architects play in architecting the Agentic Enterprise.
Trailmix
Become an Agentblazer Legend 2026
Customize and manage your next-level agent using prompts, Data 360, Slack, and Agentforce development tools.
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Salesforce Architects on LinkedIn
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Trailblazer Community
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Virtual Events
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FAQ
The Salesforce Architecture Center is a centralized hub for trusted architecture guidance, frameworks, and best practices. It helps architects design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions across the Agentforce 360 Platform using proven patterns, Decision Guides, the Well-Architected Framework, and more resources.
The Salesforce Architecture Program helps architects navigate today’s architectural challenges and build trusted solutions for tomorrow. Designed to support architects at every stage, the program provides practical guidance, new resources, and opportunities to engage with the community, helping you design for scale, build trusted solutions, and navigate the complexity of the Agentic Enterprise.
The Architecture Center provides Decision Guides, Fundamentals, and patterns that help architects evaluate trade-offs. In addition, architects can learn through blogs, livestream series like Think Like an Architect, and short-form videos.
Together, these resources cover key domains like data architecture, integration, security, scalability, and AI-driven design, helping architects apply best practices and make informed decisions across the platform.
Start with the Well-Architected Framework, then explore Decision Guides and architecture patterns based on your use case. Build foundational knowledge through Trailhead modules and architect learning paths, and deepen your expertise with Salesforce Architect certifications. Deepen your learning with expert blog posts, videos, and events. Subscribe to the Salesforce Architect Digest to stay up to date on the latest news and announcements for architects.
Choosing the right architecture starts with understanding your business requirements, data flows, and scalability needs. The Architecture Center provides Decision Guides and patterns that help architects evaluate trade-offs, select the right approach, and design solutions.
The Architecture Center is designed for Salesforce Architects, developers, administrators, and technical leaders responsible for designing and scaling solutions. Whether you're new to architecture or an experienced enterprise architect, the resources support better decision-making, consistency, and governance.
In the Agentic AI era, Salesforce Architects play a critical role in designing AI-powered, data-driven, and agent-based systems. This includes architecting for real-time data access, orchestration across systems, governance of AI agents, and scalable automation, ensuring solutions remain trusted, adaptable, and future-ready.