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Top Salesforce Deployment Challenges and Tips

As Salesforce organizations strive to improve IT delivery, making it faster, more quality-focused, and secure, they continue to face deployment challenges. Increased customer demands and high velocity releases every now and then are creating bottlenecks for Salesforce enterprises. This is where you need to recognize the Salesforce deployment challenges your team is facing and find ways to address them.

In this article, we will dive into Salesforce deployment challenges, how to orchestrate Salesforce DevOps tools, and techniques to enhance efficiency and speed while maintaining the quality and security of your applications.

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How Continuous Integration Can Help You to Make a Simple Deploy in Salesforce

Often, especially if you are new to Salesforce, you tend to take advantage of the changeset mechanism to deploy to Salesforce orgs. This works very well, but with this method, you don’t have a source control system to store and manage your development code. Here are some typical limitations:

  1. Missing version history;
  2. In case of problems, missing a simple way to rollback the target org;
  3. Team members can overwrite one another’s work with conflicting code or configuration changes;
  4. No easy way to clone or merge changes from multiple source orgs for deployment to the target org.

The objective of this short guide is to understand how Git can help you in the deployment process. To do this, we will use Gitlab and breakthrough its pipelines.