Mistaking Salesforce for a regular database
Many people come to the Salesforce ecosystem from other technology backgrounds, and they often come with preconceptions about how architecture should be done based on their past experiences. While that can be enriching to the platform, there are also cases where it can lead you to go astray, architecturally speaking. Perhaps the most frequent of these is the mistake of using Salesforce as though it were some other kind of database—generally a relational one.
Salesforce as Relational Database
Example
UmbrellaCo is the largest global manufacturer of umbrellas for the tourism industry. They use Salesforce for managing their B2B sales channel, including opportunity management, quoting, and ordering.
However, in the overall systems landscape within UmbrellaCo, Salesforce is a relatively minor component...
