What's new

This release includes new features and changes across this site, as well as Well-Architected, Diagrams, and Decision Guides.

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General

We've introduced new features that generally apply to this site, including:

• Support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Subscribe to the feed to keep up with new diagrams or content updates on architect.salesforce.com.

Well-Architected

We've made several updates, based on feedback from experts and users throughout the ecosystem, and guidance from Salesforce product and engineering teams.

Thank you to all of our contributors!

Framework

We made updates throughout the framework including:

• Re-ordering of topics to improve prioritization
• Adjustments to topic names for clarity
• Updates to patterns and anti-patterns for accuracy, product updates and clarity
• Updates to the lists of relevant resources and tools

A visual summary of notable changes:

The most notable changes are within Easy.

We updated the name of the first topic from Simple to Intentional to better clarify the focus of the content. We updated the name of the Strategy discussion the within the Intentional topic (the section was called Intentionality) to make the content clearer. We moved this discussion to the first priority order within the section. We also moved the discussion of Prioritization into the Strategy section. This discussion was formerly in Automated (the section formerly called Alignment to Business Value). Within Automated, we moved the discussion of KPIs into the Efficiency section. We removed the section called "Align to Business Value," as the content is now part of Strategy and Efficency (as explained).

Within Adaptable, we moved Application Lifecycle Management into first priority order. We also merged the guidance around scale testing (formerly in Scalability) to be aligned with the overall Testing Strategy discussion.

Other changes include minor edits to names of individual topics for clarity.

More detail about all of the changes made across Well-Architected in the sections below.

Secure

Updated section name: Use of Encryption (was Encryption)

Updated Apex guidance in Organizational Security Patterns and Anti-Patterns including:

• New user and system mode database operations functionality in Apex
• SSO access for admin users

Updated guidance in Threat Detection and Response for Field History and Field Audit Tracking functionality

Reliable

Updated section names:

• within Availability
  • Risk Management (was Risk Assessment)
  • Failure Mitigation (was Failure Mitigation Strategy)
• within Performance
  • Throughput (was Throughput Optimization)
  • Latency (was Latency Optimization)
• within Scalability
  • Data Modeling (was Data Model Optimization)
  • Data Volume (was Data Volume Management)

Removed "Scale Testing" section and merged guidance into Testing Strategy.

Updated guidance in Performance Patterns and Anti-Patterns including:

• Usage of single record references in Apex for DML or Database operations
• Selective and non-selective SOQL syntax
• Usage of SOSL and wildcard criteria

Updated guidance in Scalability Patterns and Anti-Patterns to address bulk data loads.

Intentional (formerly Simple)

We've updated the name of this behavior to be clearer. We moved the Strategy (formerly Intentionality) discussion to be the highest priority topic. We moved the guidance around prioritization into the Strategy section.

Other changes include:

• Updated guidance in Maintainability Patterns and Anti-Patterns to address legacy and unsupported technology within Salesforce orgs

Automated

Updated section name: Efficiency (was Logic)

• Updated guidance in Efficiency Patterns and Anti-Patterns (formerly Logic Patterns and Anti-Patterns) including:
  • Selective and non-selective SOQL syntax
  • Usage of SOSL and wildcard criteria
• Updated guidance in Data Integrity Patterns and Anti-Patterns to address Apex trigger code containing business logic or database operations

Resilient

Reprioritized order of considerations to: Application Lifecycle Management, Environment Strategy, Incident Response (was Incident Response, Environment Strategy, Application Lifecycle Management)

We updated the discussion around how to choose the most stable release mechanism possible in Release Management to reflect DevOps Center availability and changes to the Salesforce CLI.

• Updated guidance in ALM Patterns and Anti-Patterns including:
  • Usage of the most stable release mechansim
  • DevOps Center product availability

Salesforce Diagrams

Within the Template Gallery:

• Search and filter content within a section.
• Action links are now buttons.

The following diagrams have also been updated this month:

• Communications Cloud Business Customer Data Model
• Data Cloud Technical Capability Map
• Education Cloud Overview Data Model
• Education Cloud Recruitment & Admissions Data Model
• Einstein GPT System Landscape
• Health Coud Integrated Care Management Data Model
• Platform Privacy Consent Management Data Model
• Public Sector Solutions Provider Management Data Model
• Public Sector Court & Investigative Case Management Data Model

Architect Decision Guides

We've updated the following Guides, including added roadmap projections through June 2024.

Building Forms

This release adds OmniStudio capabilities into this Guide. Notable changes include:

• Updated takeaways to address multi-screen forms and OmniStudio usage
• Added OmniStudio capabilities to Diving Deeper feature comparison table
• Updated guidance throughout to reflect enhancements to Dynamic Forms

Record-Triggered Automation

Notable changes include:

• Updated guidance for Custom Validation Errors based on roadmap projections