As we bid farewell to 2024 and welcome 2025, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on the year’s best moments. Out of the hundreds of articles we publish each year, a select few consistently stand out by capturing the highest levels of attention and engagement from our audience.
In this article, we’ll take a look back at the top-performing developer posts of the past 12 months, ranked by pageviews.
1. Salesforce Webhooks: Your Guide to Real-Time Data Integration and More
Webhooks can be seen as a special, hands-off, communication method between systems, flipping the traditional paradigm of integrations on its head. Instead of actively fetching data from an external system, webhooks provide a mechanism for a system to send a request to a URL based on an event (as defined by that system) occurring in that system, for example, a record being created or updated.
In simple terms, webhooks are a mechanism for a system to alert another system to some event having happened, allowing the listening system to respond accordingly. In the case of Salesforce, this involves exposing a URL that can passively listen for, receive, and handle the event from the other system.
2. Salesforce Invocable Apex Methods: A Complete Breakdown
Developers and admins are great, but what if they joined forces? As you already know, Apex is Salesforce’s backend programming language and is a powerful tool for customizing and extending the functionality of your Salesforce org. One of the most useful features of Apex is the ability to create invocable methods that can be called declaratively by tools like Process Builder, Flow Builder, and even external systems via the REST API.
This article looked at invocable Apex methods – explaining what they are, and how they work, providing real-world business scenarios and code samples to illustrate their usefulness. The aim was to give a solid understanding of when and how to leverage invocable Apex to supercharge your own Salesforce org.
3. 10 Salesforce Winter ’25 Features for Developers
The Salesforce Winter ‘25 release was packed with plenty of updates for Developers from free-tier event monitoring to updates to Lightning Web Components!
4. Salesforce Spring ’24 Features: Top 10 Developer Updates You Need to Know
Even more exciting developer updates can be found in the Spring ‘24 release including new Aura components with better functionality, new and changed Apex items, plus scratch org snapshots.
5. Order of Execution in Salesforce: Simplified + Infographic
Next, we updated our article explaining the order of execution, as well as the infographic!
6. Salesforce Inspector Reloaded
Salesforce Inspector is a browser extension (great news for both Chrome and Firefox users!) that allows you to easily interact with data and navigate to setup sections in a more effective way than the standard navigation.
This is an essential time-saving solution for all professionals working on Salesforce.
7. What Are Salesforce Governor Limits? Best Practices & Examples
The Salesforce Governor Limits concept exists because Salesforce and Apex run in a multitenant environment. Multitenancy is a fundamental technology that sits alongside cloud computing.
In this article, Andy Hitchings explains multitenancy, governor limits, plus best practices you need to be aware of.
8. Salesforce’s New Free AI Certifications: Your Guide to Courses and Premium Training
To support the current and upcoming wave of AI tools and implementations, Salesforce has announced that they’re investing $50M into initiatives designed to upskill workforces in a bid to address the AI skills gap.
This includes offering a mixture of virtual, hands-on workshops, instructor-led courses, and free AI certification exams. In this article, find out how you can benefit from free AI training and certifications!
9. How Does Salesforce’s Agentforce Work?
Agentforce allows organizations to build and manage autonomous agents for tasks across various business departments – in fact, there’s an “Agentforce in every app”. There’s the potential to build Sales Agents, Service Agents, Marketing Agents, Commerce Agents, and Platform Agents.
But, how does this all work? What are the building blocks that we will use to configure our agents? Salesforce advocated that agents can be built easily with clicks not code. This article will show you how.
10. Most Popular Salesforce Chrome Extensions 2024
Salesforce professionals go nuts for Chrome extensions! Every year, this is one of our most popular posts and 2024 was no exception.
Andreea Doroftei explores the Chrome extensions available to you, ranked by popularity (installations and ratings), as well as ease of use, alongside the included functionality.
Summary
That’s a wrap on the top 10 posts for Salesforce Developers in 2024. What was your favorite? Do you have any articles or tutorials you would like to see us write? Let us know in the comments!
Also, if you have Salesforce knowledge that you’d like to share with our audience, you can apply to write for Salesforce Ben using our guest author form here – we’d love to hear from you.