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The complete collection of Deep Dives, practical tutorials, Quick Reads and engineering notes across Salesforce, MuleSoft, DataWeave, integration, APIs, distributed systems, testing and developer tooling.
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Salesforce · MuleSoft · Change Data Capture · 15 min read
A practical architecture and implementation guide for consuming Salesforce Change Data Capture events with MuleSoft while designing replay, idempotency, recovery, and downstream processing deliberately.
Read article →Salesforce · MuleSoft · Event-Driven Systems · 9 min read
A practical guide to consuming Salesforce Platform Events with MuleSoft, with replay, checkpointing, idempotency, durable handoff, and recovery considerations.
Read article →Architecture · Enterprise Integration · Resilience · 13 min read
A practical architecture pattern for isolating failed integration work, preserving appropriate recovery context, and enabling safe replay without turning transient failures into permanent data loss.
Read article →Architecture · Event-Driven Systems · MuleSoft · 8 min read
A production architecture guide to protecting event consumers and downstream systems when event arrival rates exceed processing capacity.
Read article →Architecture · Event-Driven Systems · Distributed Systems · 3 min read
Event producers and consumers evolve independently. This deep dive explores additive change, semantic compatibility, versioning and migration without turning the event bus into a coordination bottleneck.
Read article →Salesforce · MuleSoft · Architecture · 15 min read
A production design for consuming high-volume Salesforce Change Data Capture events without depending on the 72-hour event-bus window: durable handoff, replay checkpoints, sequencing, parallel processing, backpressure and recoverable error handling.
Read article →Architecture · Enterprise Integration · Event-Driven Systems · 15 min read
A practical architecture guide to reliable event publication and consumption when business state, brokers, databases, and external systems cannot share one atomic transaction.
Read article →Architecture · Enterprise Integration · Resilience · 11 min read
A practical framework for choosing between retry, replay, dead-letter queues, and an Error Hospital based on failure semantics, recovery needs, and operational complexity.
Read article →Salesforce · Quick Reads · Event-Driven Systems · 2 min read
Salesforce Change Data Capture consumers should treat ChangeEventHeader as processing metadata, not just jump directly to changed business fields.
Read article →Salesforce · MuleSoft · Event-Driven Systems · 6 min read
A concise architecture guide to choosing Salesforce Change Data Capture or Platform Events based on whether you need record-change notifications or purpose-built business events.
Read article →Salesforce · Event-Driven Systems · Quick Reads · 3 min read
Salesforce Pub/Sub API is pull-based. Use its event-request model as a real backpressure mechanism instead of building an ever-growing consumer backlog.
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