Salesforce Load & Scale

Overview

Load testing, scaling strategies, and capacity planning for Salesforce integrations. Focus on API limit budgeting, Bulk API throughput, and handling Salesforce's unique constraint: org-wide shared limits.

Prerequisites

• k6 or Artillery load testing tool
• Sandbox or Developer org for testing (never load test production)
• Understanding of your org's API limit allocation
• Monitoring configured (see salesforce-observability)

Instructions

Step 1: Calculate API Limit Budget

const conn = await getConnection();
const limits = await conn.request('/services/data/v59.0/limits/');