Play by Play: Adopting Trigger Design Patterns in Existing Salesforce Orgs

In this course, you’ll learn inexpensive and low-risk ways to bring current best practices into an existing Salesforce org and prepare it for the future.

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Adopting Trigger Design Patterns in Existing Salesforce Orgs, Dan Appleman and Don Robins demonstrate guiding a team towards choosing how to adopt trigger design patterns to resolve problems and ensure both stability and sustainability. Learn about evaluating the issues, the various issues associated with unmanaged trigger execution order, errant DML operations, multiple triggers on the same object, and simple coding patterns that can help resolve these common issues. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of how you can achieve enormous benefits in terms of reliability and performance with very little effort by applying simple design patterns to improve your Apex codebase and declarative configuration.

• Course Overview 2mins
• Introduction and Setting the Stage 21mins
• Trigger Patterns without Frameworks 29mins
• Cooperating with Declarative Developers 13mins
• Preparing for the Future 12mins
• Summary & Recap 6mins