Data partitioning is a database technique commonly used to improve performance and manageability.  Salesforce provides a feature called Divisions that lets you partition your records into logical sections. As an example, you can divide your customer records based on their geographical location by creating divisions called US, EMEA and APAC.  The users in these regions can then be enabled to use these division. One of the benefits of doing so would be that division specific searches and division specific list views will provide them with data that is most relevant to them.  The other potential benefit is performance.  I was… Continue reading

Over time the software development community has developed several best practices to make the development process more predictable. Many of these best practices are relevant for Force.com development as well. The tools provided with Force.com make it fairly
easy to integrate these best practices into your development methodology. One such best practice is the idea of continuous integration – integrating the code developed by various developers on a regular basis vs. trying to cram it in before the release.  In this article I describe how you can use CruiseControl, an open source tool to automate continuous integration for your Force.com project. 

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