July 2024 Well-Architected Framework Release
Summary
The July 2024 update to Salesforce's Well-Architected Framework introduces official guidance for integrating Data Cloud and Einstein, marking a key milestone with vetted architectural patterns and anti-patterns for these innovations. This release also improves the Pattern & Anti-Pattern Explorer's usability by enabling broader, taxonomy-agnostic searches, helping architects find relevant design guidance faster. Salesforce teams can now leverage this evolved framework to confidently design scalable and maintainable solutions incorporating Data Cloud and Einstein capabilities.
Takeaways
- Use new Well-Architected guidance for integrating Data Cloud and Einstein.
- Access patterns and anti-patterns via the updated Explorer with improved search.
- Leverage cross-functional expert-reviewed architecture best practices.
- Search across all framework dimensions without pre-filtering in the Explorer.
- Follow Salesforce-vetted design patterns and avoid established anti-patterns.
Today we released new features and content to the Well-Architected Framework and the Pattern & Anti-Pattern Explorer 🎉. These new enhancements, while small, are a first step in a larger effort to bring Data Cloud and Einstein into the Well-Architected Framework and to enhance the usability of our tools. Here’s a look at what’s new. Well-Architected Guidance for Data Cloud & Einstein We finally have guidance for Data Cloud & Einstein in Salesforce Well-Architected. This is a big milestone for us, because it is the first time we’re publishing guidance that Salesforce can stand behind for these new innovations. We stand behind this guidance thanks to a cross-functional group of experts from our engineering, product, professional services and pre-sales organizations who came together to identify, debate, and discuss what patterns our customer architects should follow (and the anti-patterns they should avoid) when designing solutions with CRM, Data Cloud and Einstein.