You're reading from Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568754

Pages 628 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Software Architecture

Author (1):

Tameem Bahri

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA

2. Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey as a CTA

3. Chapter 2: Core Architectural Concepts – Data

4. Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography

5. Chapter 4: Core Architectural Concepts – Identity and Access Management

6. Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive

7. Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

8. Chapter 6: Formulating a Secure Architecture in Salesforce

9. Chapter 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Creating a Lean Solution Architecture

11. Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

12. Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

13. Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

14. Section 3: Putting It All Together

15. Chapter 12: Practice the Review Board – First Mock

16. Chapter 13: Present and Defend – First Mock

17. Chapter 14: Practice the Review Board – Second Mock

18. Chapter 15: Present and Defend – Second Mock

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward

Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

Designing scalable solutions is a challenging task. Scalable solutions include solutions that perform well under huge customer demands or during a particular demand spike, as well as those solutions that can continuously add value to the business and enable it to embrace futuristic market trends without compromising the quality of the service.

As a Salesforce system architect, you are expected to lead the design of such solutions, utilizing the rich set of Salesforce products as well as third-party products and applications from the ecosystem. You must do all this while keeping the desired user experience, the imposed governance limits, and the nature of the client's business model in mind.

In this chapter, we'll start to dive deeper into the different Salesforce-specific knowledge areas required to pass the CTA review board. We will then put that knowledge into action by utilizing a mini hypothetical scenario that...