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A Brief History of Deploying Salesforce Changes

With Salesforce’s own delivery model coming in the form of three major releases per year, the platform has evolved substantially since it was first made available back in 2000. From its early days as a predominantly sales tool, Salesforce has evolved to become a development platform in its own right. With this change came the need to bring true development best practices to your customizations and the need to deliver them effectively.

In this chapter, we’ll be looking at the history of making and delivering changes on the Salesforce platform, to understand the current shortcomings of the built-in tools. This will help set the context for the necessity of a DevOps process and where the current ...

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