💃 Out Of The Box AWS Integration🕺

Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! A while back we touched on some ways to handle Salesforce integrations. I thought today I'd nerd out 🤓 a little bit more on the topic and give an example of using Platform Events (PE) to send data asynchronously to AWS! The best part? 💥 You can configure this only 7 steps! 💥 If you're working in an environment with both Salesforce & AWS - check this out! Just don't forget to analyze your PE limits before you swap everything over!

Agenda for today includes

• Foundations

• Salesforce Event Relay

• Daily Principle

• All the Memes

Foundations

First, let's zoom out and look at what we're doing. Platform Events are used to connect Salesforce to external systems through an Event Bus. What the heck is an Event Bus? Simplest terms - a pipeline that receives events being published by an application. An event is data about something happening in your system. An Order was updated? Publish a PE, the event data is put onto the Event Bus and any application set up as a receiver is automatically gets the event in near real-time.

This is asynchronous because Salesforce publishes the event and just goes about it's business - not caring about a response. Effectively decoupling Salesforce and the external system consuming the event. These are the building blocks of an event-driven architecture. 🏗️

Salesforce Event Relay