How many times do you find yourself at the end of the day that you did nothing the whole day? In this age of technology, we have a new challenge that our predecessors didn’t have, DISTRACTION. On average, Americans spend 4 hours and 25 minutes on mobile phones and pick up mobiles around 144 times. Also, on average we spend 2 hours & 24 minutes on social media. We all are trying to counter this habit in multiple way. One solution that works for me is to block websites. There are paid solutions however why pay if we can write ourselves? In this blog post, I will share a video and full source ..read more

This is the last blog post in the AI series. In this blog post, I will share source code and a Video tutorial on using Open AI embedding with Langchain , Chroma vector database to talk to PDF file using Open with the concept known as RAG – Retrieval-Augmented Generation. We would use the Chroma database to store embedding vectors and save API costs from Open AI ..read more

This is blog post 2 in the AI series. In this blog post, I will share source code and a Video tutorial on using Open AI embedding with Langchain , Chroma vector database to talk to Salesforce lead data using Open with the concept known as RAG – Retrieval-Augmented Generation. . We would use the Chroma database to store embedding vectors and save API costs from Open AI ..read more

How many times do you need to google your favorite Salesforce DX Commands? Or you used some commands in your last project to automate deployment and were not able to recall them & access them quickly when you need to? I have been using Task.json for a long time in VSCode for Keep my favorite commands at my fingertips Automate a series of commonly used commands. Reuse automated deployment scripts. Common Task.json I have been using in all of my projects and keep updating them with any new command. In this blog post, I would share a snippet of my Task.json and ten reasons to use them. 1. S ..read more

Experience cloud is a powerful feature on the Salesforce platform where you can expose a subset of data and capabilities for external users as well as some capabilities for unauthenticated public users. This extremely powerful capability comes with huge responsibility, which is setting up the right security. By this time, you must have heard many news like this where the Salesforce experience cloud is leaking information. As per this IBM study, the average cost of a data breach is around 10M. Let me clarify, Salesforce is not leaking the information, but the bad implementation is. Coincident ..read more

Salesforce experience cloud came a long way in the last few years from Visualforce-based template to aura to LWR and increasing limit of high volume customer community users from 20M to 100M+. All these changes show this product is extensively used and loved by customers. Some of the examples where experience cloud is used are the USCIS website for visa appointments, Frito-Lay, and many more companies in S&P500. As this product is getting more mature, I heard rumors that Salesforce might bring B2C Commerce to experience cloud from demand ware (safe harbor). I want to discuss one particular ..read more

As a Salesforce Architect and leader of the Alpharetta Developer Group, I recently had the opportunity to present on the exciting topic of integrating ChatGPT with Salesforce. The session received such positive feedback that I was invited to present it to a broader audience on Apex Hours, a popular YouTube channel with over 86,000 subscribers. In this blog post, I’ll recap the highlights of my presentation, focusing on the security aspects and integration with Salesforce. History of LLM Models and OpenAI The presentation began with a brief history of large language models (LLMs), detailing the ..read more

How often have you been asked on transformational projects that who would be doing what? Especially when you have multiple types of Salesforce Architects. Various titles, you name it, like Chief Architect, Lead Architect, Platform Architect, Enterprise Architect, and the list goes on. In this post, I aim to share my experience and point of view on the difference between the roles & responsibilities of Solution & Technical Architects concerning Salesforce implementation. Instead of just writing a few bullets, I would explain it as a story, just like I did here. Once upon a time in the b ..read more

Bulk API 2 is a new & better way of handling bulk record processing in Salesforce than the previous Bulk API. A few of the advantage of Bulk API 2 is automatic retries of failed records, a governor limit of 24 hours based on the number of records processed instead of batch job count, automatic handling of batch size, etc. More detail of comparison can be found in Salesforce documentation here. This article & video is assuming that you know the basics of Mulesoft. Coming back to this post, We would be using Mulesoft to insert contacts using Bulk API 2. One of the caveats of bulk API is ..read more

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