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  • Declarative Platform Developer 1: Part 2

    Continuing the Hunt for Application Architect as a Declarative Architect After a moderate break I attempted the Platform Developer 1 exam again and in the end, I succeeded! I passed the Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certification. As a result, I also received the Salesforce Application Architect certification which is an accomplishment I’m very proud of.…

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    Benefits of Salesforce Certifications

    Why Certifications Help to Assess Talent Some people don’t like Salesforce certifications and argue that only real life experience shows true skills, but I think certifications are a good data point to look at and they show a lot about the person in addition to their abilities. Salesforce certifications give a second angle to what…

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    A Few Takeaways from ‘Delivering Happiness’ by Tony Hsieh

    I recently read Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh and I found it really interesting and informative. The book talks about Tony’s experience with developing companies, and is particularly focused on his time working with Zappos–first as investor and then eventually as the long time CEO. The two focuses of the book that most interested me…

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    Declarative Platform Developer 1: Part 1

    As someone who entered the Salesforce ecosystem from a background other than coding, the Platform Developer 1 certification is definitely the biggest hurdle I’ve faced pursuing the Application Architect side of the Salesforce architect pyramid (see below if you haven’t seen the Certified Technical Architect pyramid). It became the only certification left before I completed…

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    Salesforce’s Partner-Exclusive Training Resources

    Salesforce has an ecosystem as broad and dense as their product offerings, and there are a lot of people and a lot of kinds of people who are trying to figure out how to use the platform to its fullest. To help improve the likelihood of a successful customer experience, Salesforce offers exclusive training tools…

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  • Building Fragile Salesforce Architecture

    What do I aim to explain and explore? What are fragile Salesforce architecture decisions? What are common solutions in Salesforce with fragile architecture? How do fragile systems architecture decisions happen? What are the business impacts of fragile architecture? How do you avoid fragile architecture decisions? How do you design processes that eliminate fragile architecture? What…

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    What are Salesforce certifications?

    Salesforce is a far reaching and complicated platform that has acquired new functionality over the last two decades to expand its offerings and market share. The Salesforce professional ecosystem has grown in size out of necessity as Salesforce’s platform gets more robust, calling for specialization and the necessity for credentials on specific areas of the…

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    Suggest Future Content & Get Your Questions Answered

    Salesforce and the Salesforce Ecosystem are very broad, so the number of directions I can take content are only limited by the amount of time I have available to create it. Since half of the “I learn and you learn” philosophy is that you learn too, I want to hear about the topics you’re interested…

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    Book Reading List

    I love to learn and consuming books is the most reliable way to consume knowledge that was accumulated over years in just hours. Please recommend additional books for me to read! These books are organized in the reverse order in which I first read them. I’ve bolded the titles of some of the most impactful…

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