Trying to identify the current org limit for platform events can be cumbersome. Tracking platform event usage limits is even more difficult. The usage limit is a rolling 24 hour limit based on the number of purchased platform events your org has. If it is the out of the box limit then it is 50k […]

Platform Events are a very useful feature within Salesforce. As the underlining technology to be able to use event-driven architecture, platform events within Salesforce provide near real-time event messaging which can be used internally and externally. Platform Events like other SObjects are pretty flat, the structure is an object with key-value pairs. In most scenarios […]

In Salesforce merging a record itself is simple; one record is deleted(the loser), one record is updated(the winner), and the children are reparented. With CDC that is all out of the box. If the external system and any processes can handle those operations alone then it is all straight forward and easy to implement. However, […]

Salesforce Change Data Capture is very useful in being able to capture and replicate changes that occur with a record. Each change creates a CDC event message. The message can either be one or multiple record changes with a given transaction creating multiple changes. This article assumes you know a little bit about Salesforce change […]

Platform events can be a pain to work with when trying to view/troubleshoot. You can either create a trigger, subscribe with an external application, or use the emp-api. Using a trigger is difficult to read in the debug, an external application creates other barriers such as connecting to Salesforce along with taking events, which leaves […]

Outbound messaging is a configurable workflow-driven method to send messages from Salesforce to an external endpoint. The message is driven by and can only be triggered through a workflow-rule. Outbound messages are SOAP-based messages that contain notifications(up to 100 per message) in the message. Each message can hold multiple notifications which are singular events that […]