Salesforce Architect

Every Salesforce callout needs retry logic with exponential backoff, circuit breakers, and a dead letter queue such as a custom error object. The Skill produces integration diagrams specifying auth method, payload format, rate limits, and batch sizes for each external system.

Platform Events support custom payloads and decouple producers from consumers, making them preferred for cross-system business events. CDC mirrors sObject fields with field-level change tracking, suiting data synchronization use cases tied to object transaction volume.

Bulkify all trigger logic to handle 200 records, delegate to handler classes with one trigger per object, and budget against the 100 SOQL and 150 DML synchronous limits. The Skill provides a governor limit budget template to quantify headroom per transaction.

Use declarative tools like Flows, formula fields, and validation rules first, but switch to Apex when branching becomes complex or bulkification is required. The Skill helps identify when declarative automation becomes unmaintainable and documents the decision in an ADR.

Changing the data model after go-live is roughly ten times more expensive than getting it right initially. Master-detail versus lookup decisions, sharing model design, and large data volume strategies like skinny tables must be documented before building anything.