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What happens when you bring Sales Cloud into Claude? 🌐 In the latest Architect Insights, Principal Architect Evangelist Scott Ratliff explores the Sales Cloud in Claude plugin, the AIforce architecture behind it, and how @Salesforce data and business logic can be securely accessed through AI assistants. Watch to learn more: sforce.co/3U72di8
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Missed it live? Meet the New Well-Architected Framework: Dreamforce for Architects is now available on demand. ▶️ Discover the framework’s new pillars, their role in guiding architectural decisions, and practical ways to apply the evolved framework to design trusted, scalable, and reliable systems. Watch now: sforce.co/4jPtVuf
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S’more learning, anyone? 🎃 Complete the Trick or @Trailhead 2026 Campfire Stories Quest to build hands-on skills with headless technology and enter for a chance to win a special Astro prize. Start learning: sforce.co/4i2LbcX *Restrictions apply. See Official Rules. sforce.co/3WAzQK3
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Don't miss your chance to get a closer look at the new @Salesforce Well-Architected Framework! 🏗️ Join Software Engineering Architect Tim Breeden tomorrow, October 20, for an interactive livestream and Q&A covering what’s new, why it matters, and what’s next for the framework. RSVP for free: sforce.co/4jPtVuf
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The October edition of the @Salesforce Architect Digest brings together architecture guidance, community highlights, and learning opportunities: 🏛️ Five pillars of the new Well-Architected Framework ❄️ Winter ’27 Release highlights 🤖 AIforce livestream and hands-on workshops 🌟 Trailblazer Spotlight featuring Daniel Stange Read the latest edition and subscribe for monthly updates: sforce.co/479F5CG
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How do you make sure every AI agent gets the same trusted answer, even during a zombie apocalypse? 🧟 Join Principal Architect Evangelist Lilith Van Biesen on October 29 for a spooky edition of Think Like an Architect! Follow a zombie courier company as architects tackle the challenge of delivering consistent, explainable delivery dates using deterministic logic in @Salesforce and a custom MCP server. Register now and bring your questions for the live Q&A: sforce.co/4ylP56P
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What’s new in the @Salesforce Well-Architected Framework, and how can you apply it? 🏗️ Building on the conversations from Dreamforce 2026, join Software Engineering Architect Tim Breeden on October 20 for an interactive livestream and Q&A to explore the framework’s new pillars, understand what they mean for architectural decisions, and learn to apply them to design trusted, scalable, and reliable systems. RSVP for free: sforce.co/4jPtVuf
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The #TDX27 Call for Participation opens at the end of October. 🎤 Start preparing your session ideas to share how you’re solving real-world challenges with @Salesforce, from innovative agentic experiences and implementations to technical deep dives and lessons learned. 📍 San Francisco and on Salesforce+ 🗓️ March 10–11, 2027 ❓ Check out the CFP FAQ to learn more: sforce.co/4jY7Tp8 🔔 Save the Date for TDX: sforce.co/4hIdvTe
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The Winter ‘27 Release introduces important changes and new capabilities that could impact your @Salesforce architecture. 🏗️ From security updates to new capabilities for scaling agents, explore what’s changing and the architectural decisions to consider across four key areas: 🔐 Security and authentication ⚡️ Capacity and automation 🤖 Agentic architecture 🔎 Governance and observability Read the blog: sforce.co/4s79Bqu
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👏 A new way to build apps and agents is here. Next week, join Builder Central Product Managers @TiaanK and @Daivatd to learn how it works and get your questions answered during an extended live Q&A. Save your spot for October 20: sforce.co/4ilNiul
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User adoption doesn't start at go-live. It starts with the architecture decisions you make long before it. 💡 In this 🆕 blog, @Salesforce Architect Victoria Khanchevska shares how to design for user adoption from day one by helping you: 🎯 Set adoption criteria before design 🧭 Design around how users actually work 📊 Create feedback loops to address friction 🔄 Plan phased rollouts that incorporate feedback Read the blog: sforce.co/4yNPT5K
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Dreamforce may be over, but there’s more to experience. 👀 The Salesforce Well-Architected Framework has evolved for the agentic era — with five pillars and new guidance to help architects navigate trade-offs as systems become more complex. Join Software Engineering Architect Tim Breeden on October 20 to break down what’s changed, why it matters, and how to put the evolved framework into practice. Register now and bring your questions for the live Q&A: sforce.co/4jPtVuf
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Building agents with AIforce means accounting for authentication, isolation, auditability, and trust boundaries. 🛡️ Watch Build Secure Agents with @Salesforce AIforce on demand with Certified Technical Architects Tuan Abdeen and Slavisa Maslic as they explore the four trust boundaries architects should consider when Agentforce runs behind your own UI and outside Salesforce-hosted guardrails. Stream on Salesforce+: sforce.co/4y7yPq4
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Build a more resilient async architecture that can scale with demand. 📈 In this blog, Principal Architect Evangelist Marlene Guerra-Reeve walks through the architectural process behind the Async Framework, including how to reduce unnecessary async consumption and use a decision guide, centralized limits monitor, and process-specific routing rules. Read the blog: sforce.co/4ASTTmT
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Design for the unexpected. ⚡ The Reliability pillar of the @Salesforce Well-Architected Framework helps architects build solutions that stay available, recover from disruption, and scale when demand changes. Explore the guidance:
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How can you use AIforce to deliver one trusted answer to every audience, whether it reaches them through a web page, a work tool or an external AI agent? 🌐 Trusted AI starts with trusted logic. Join Principal Architect Evangelist Lilith Van Biesen on October 29 to see how architects can use AIforce to build deterministic logic in @Salesforce, expose it through a custom MCP server, and manage identity and permissions across web, work tools, and third-party agents. RSVP today: sforce.co/4zhxsG6
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The October edition of the @Salesforce Architect Digest newsletter is here — your monthly roundup of content, events, and resources. 📰 Inside: the new Well-Architected Framework, new blogs from community authors, Think Like an Architect with AIforce, hands-on AIforce workshops, Trailblazer Spotlight featuring Daniel Stange, a closer look at multi-agent architecture, and more. sforce.co/479F5CG
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Winter ’27 Release Highlights: Security, agentic architecture, and governance 🔒 Focus on the Winter ’27 changes that require architectural attention and turn them into informed decisions across security, scale, agentic architecture, and governance. Read the blog: sforce.co/46XzZtd
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The @Salesforce Well-Architected Framework was shaped with architects, for architects. 💡 Golden Hoodie Recipient and Salesforce MVP Hall of Famer Daniel Stange and Salesforce Architect Evangelist Scott Ratliff reflect on how practitioner feedback helped shape the framework and unpack what’s new in its latest evolution. Watch the Architect Keynote on demand for more: sforce.co/3VtPSFa
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For @Salesforce Architect @metalshark, good architecture decisions start with understanding the goals driving them. 💡 Drawing on his experience, Beech brings a practical perspective to evaluating trade-offs, guiding technology decisions, and helping teams understand why a standard makes sense for their org. His approach: make the reasoning clear, evaluate decisions against what matters, and unite the room when “it depends.” Read more in the blog: sforce.co/47tSdTe
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