Knowing the takeaways

In this section, we will abstract a bit from the specific patterns and instead try to pull out the wider learning points you can use in your day-to-day work as a Salesforce architect or in preparing for the CTA Review Board.

When architecting Salesforce solutions, you should be mindful of the following:

• Don’t include too much information when presenting your architecture to business stakeholders.
• Instead, focus on your main message and include only essential supporting information.
• Don’t feel bad about not including all the additional considerations you had in coming up with your solution. If anybody wants more detail, they can ask for it afterward.
• Don’t postpone decisions beyond the latest point it makes sense to take them, even if making a decision is hard.
• If a decision is controversial or politically sensitive, deferring to a formal decision process can provide a way forward.
• If you have a situation where...