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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

You're reading from   Salesforce DevOps for Architects Discover tools and techniques to optimize the delivery of your Salesforce projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636051
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rob Cowell Rob Cowell
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Lars Malmqvist Lars Malmqvist
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: A Brief History of Deploying Salesforce Changes 2. Chapter 2: Developing a DevOps Culture FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Value of Source Control 4. Chapter 4: Testing Your Changes 5. Chapter 5: Day-to-Day Delivery with SFDX 6. Chapter 6: Exploring Packaging 7. Chapter 7: CI/CD Automation 8. Chapter 8: Ticketing Systems 9. Chapter 9: Backing Up Data and Metadata 10. Chapter 10: Monitoring for Changes 11. Chapter 11: Data Seeding Your Development Environments 12. Chapter 12: Salesforce DevOps Tools – Gearset 13. Chapter 13: Copado 14. Chapter 14: Salesforce DevOps Tools – Flosum 15. Chapter 15: AutoRABIT 16. Chapter 16: Other Salesforce DevOps Tools 17. Chapter 17: Conclusion 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Monitoring metadata

In this section, we’ll delve into the pivotal role of metadata monitoring within the Salesforce platform, an aspect that stands as the cornerstone of environment control and management. Metadata, the underlying structure defining every component in your Salesforce org, undergoes constant evolution as your organization customizes and expands.

By providing a comprehensive overview of how and why metadata should be monitored, we aim to underscore the necessity of implementing robust metadata monitoring strategies, thus ensuring a more controlled, transparent, and efficient Salesforce environment.

Why monitor metadata?

Monitoring changes made to metadata is an essential discipline. As you customize and expand your org, the associated metadata evolves as well. This happens because everything in the core Salesforce platform exists as metadata, so any change you make results in changing that metadata. This also means your metadata gets more complex as your...

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