Salesforce Development

Expert patterns for Salesforce platform development including Lightning Web Components (LWC), Apex triggers and classes, REST/Bulk APIs, External Client Apps, and Salesforce DX with scratch orgs and 2nd generation packages (2GP).

Modern Architecture Guidance

Security and User Mode

For current Apex development, make the intended data-access mode explicit.

• Prefer WITH USER_MODE for SOQL/SOSL that should enforce the running user's object permissions, FLS, sharing, and other supported security controls.
• Use user-mode DML or Database methods when the operation should enforce user permissions.
• Use system mode only when elevated access is intentional and justified.
• WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED is legacy guidance and should not be used for new API 67.0+ code.
• API 67.0 changes the platform defaults for database operations and class sharing, so do not assume older API-version behavior applies to newer code.

Integration Pattern Selection