Processing Large Amounts of Data in Salesforce with Bulk API 2.0

Running into limits with your Salesforce REST API usage, or simply proactively looking to process a large amount of data in Salesforce? Due to the limits in place on how many calls you can make to the REST API on a per 24-hour period that may limit how much data you can process an alternative approach is needed. Thankfully, with the Bulk API, you can process up to 100 million records per 24-hour period, which should (hopefully) be more than enough for you.

 

Introduction to the Salesforce REST API (using Postman)

This post is going to be a rather lengthy introductory course on the Salesforce REST API. If you’re just looking for the Postman collection, or would like to just follow along, click here. We’ll discuss authentication, basic read operations, SOQL queries, batch & composite queries, and querying with an external key. We’ll also touch on the Salesforce workbench.

 

Statically Typed Newsletter: Volume 1

Inspired by Tim Ferris’s 5-bullet Friday and Scott Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things, I’ve decided this would be a great place for me to share some of the humorous, educational, insightful, or just generally weird things I found online. It could be videos, book recommendations, gadgets, recipes, and so on.

 

Create Your Own .NET Core Templates in 4 Easy Steps

Do you ever develop prototypes, or starter projects/accelerators, that you’d like to use again in the future? A good way to do that is by creating custom templates for dotnet. Once completed, anytime you want to create a new project of that type in the future, you can use key in “dotnet new ” and you’re off, complete with correct namespaces. You can even do conditional checks, or variable replacements.

 

NDC Minnesota 2018 Recap

NDC Minnesota is the inaugural NDC Conference event for the United States. I’ve long followed the event online as they post most of their conference sessions on Vimeo. The event was held in the very well appointed St. Paul RiverCentre in downtown St. Paul, MN. Absolutely no complaints about the venue, the event itself, or any of the speaker presentations. I honestly was expecting a number of hang-ups since the first year for a conference is usually a learning experience but it feels as though the NDC team is really on top of everything given their past events at other locations.