TDX Updates, DDD in Salesforce, Flow Roadmap and Flow Lens
Paul Battisson
Founder & CEO Groundwork Apps | Helping organisations succeed in the cloud for 14+ years | Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame | 2x Published Author | Speaker
Welcome to this week's CloudBites Weekly, where we have some great items and announcements away from TDX you may have missed this week, as well as a summary of some of the key announcements from the event. We have a lot to unpack, so lets hop in.
TDX 2025
TrailblazerDX (or TDX) 2025 was in full swing this week with a lot of new announcements. Here is a summary of some of the key items:
Lots more was discussed and shared, so make sure to head to Salesforce+ and check out some of the sessions yourself.
Domain Driven Design (DDD) in Salesforce
One of the difficulties in having Salesforce as your single enterprise platform at scale is the fact that so many core objects are shared (everyone uses the Account!), and many processes overlap. It can be tough to ensure there is a structured way to manage changes and ownership.
Enter Domain-Driven Design. Domain-driven design is a way of separating an application into a series of domains (Sales, Service, Finance, HR, etc.) and then having these domains operate individually on their work with well-defined boundaries and agreed-upon processes for updating and sharing common resources.
郭全林 has a great article this week on how to use Domain-Driven Design in Salesforce to control the chaos and build more scalable and manageable solutions. You can see Charlie's post on the background of the problem and link to his article here.
Flow Lens
Mitch Spano and the Google team have open sourced "Flow Lens", a command line tool that allows you to create simple diagrams that make reviewing changes in Flow much easier.
Your Flows should be in your build pipeline and undergo code review like any other change, but because we only had the XML representation, it was not easy to see where the changes were. This tool allows you to generate images like the one above using either file paths or git to make it clearer what changes were made in the flow. You can read Mitch's post about the cool new tool and find links on how to install and use it here.
Flow Roadmap
Alex Edelstein from Salesforce shared a really long and detailed article this week on the future of Flow and it's roadmap. It is a fascinating read and great to see such open communication from senior product leadership on where they are planning on going. There is so much detail in the article on updates across the Flow suite that are good to see, including touching other clouds such as Marketing Cloud Growth and Advanced. You can read the full article with all the information here.
That's a wrap!
That's a wrap for another week! As a small note, next week I am over in Dublin at Irish Dreamin . If you are there please come and say hi! I intend to get the newsletter out next Friday but it may be delayed so apologies in advance if so! Have a great week!