How to combine two complementary technologies — MQTT and Kafka are completely different technologies made for different purposes. In most cases, it makes sense to choose only one of the two technologies for your implementation — whichever makes more sense for the requirements of your use case. …

You only need 5 Minutes and some basic JavaScript skills — The past If you are 20 years old or younger you probably don’t even know what the strange devices on the picture are used for. Those are telephones. Back in the days, if you wanted to order new clothes or raise a complaint about your hotel booking you needed to throw in…

There is no documentation in Agile Software Development — “We have not documented that, we are working agile, you know.” — (2019, Person wants to remain unknown) It’s not my intention to offend anyone, but I do want to share my experience from a recent project with you. …

All you need to know about Salesforce Platform Events — Platform Events are Salesforce’s powerful answer to the trending world of Event-driven Architecture. It enables decoupling of applications & solutions and implements a modern pub-sub architecture for usage inside & outside of Salesforce. This story summarizes important resources about Salesforce Streaming, Pub-Sub, and the different Salesforce technologies like Platform Events…

How to subscribe to Salesforce Platform Events — In this story, we will learn how to subscribe to Salesforce Platform Events using different technologies like Salesforce Workbench, Salesforce Flows, and Salesforce Apex. Together we will build the below architecture.

Publish Salesforce Platform Events with different technologies — Salesforce Platform Events can be created in different ways using Flows Process Builder Apex Salesforce APIs We will take a look at all the variants in this story, let’s kick start right away. Define a Platform Event Before we can publish any Platform Event, we need to define one. Let’s create a Platform Event…

How to subscribe to Salesforce Platform Events using Python — In this story, we are going to implement and publish a Platform Event in Salesforce and subscribe to it from outside Salesforce using Python. To follow along with this story you can create a Salesforce Developer Account for free here. We will cover two parts. The authentication to Salesforce from…

Blockchain for Beginners — What is a Blockchain? — In this story, we jump into the shoes of Bob Blockchain. Bob wants to understand what a Blockchain is. Before Bob can jump into the details of the Blockchain universe, he must understand something about transactions.

How to call a REST API from Salesforce LWC? — In this story, I will describe two methods on how you can call an external API from Salesforce Lightning Web Components (LWC). 1) Using Apex Callouts 2) Using JavaScript fetch API Let’s directly get our hands dirty. We will use the free public dog API that returns random pictures of…