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I like free stuff, free databases, however, I don’t like slower systems. In this post, I will share my quick tips on how I install PostgreSQL and start & stop service as needed so that my system is not using resources when I’m not working on PostgreSQL.

Install, Start & Stop PostgreSQL

The most convenient way to install a database is using the Homebrew command

brew install postgresql@14

Use the below command, when you would like to start database services

brew services start postgresql@14

and below command, if you are done with PostgreSQL so that system is not using unnecessary memory or CPU in background services

brew services stop postgresql@14

Install PGAdmin – Graphical Interface for Database Management

If you need a graphical interface to work with PostgreSQL, install pgadmin4 using the below command

brew install --cask pgadmin4

Once installation is done, refer below images to setup a connection with localhost

By default password is blank for newly created PostgreSQL

Mulesoft Connection with PostgreSQL

Refer below image for settings

• URL : jdbc:PostgreSQL://localhost:5432/postgres
• URL format : jdbc:PostgreSQL://localhost:<Port Number>/<databasename>
• Driver Class Name : org.postgresql.Driver

Other PostgreSQL-related Commands

Finding installation path

$ Which psql

Operating from the command line

$ psql postgres@14
//second parameter , in this case postgres is name of database

Get list of users in PostgreSQL

$ psql postgres@14

Then run command
\du 

Command to create a new user with super privilege

CREATE USER postgres SUPERUSER;
CREATE DATABASE postgres WITH OWNER postgres;  

Check if PLSQL is working or not

> brew services list

Uninstalling PostgreSQL

Run below commands

//Check if instance is running 
$ launchctl list | grep -i sql

//Stop instance 
$ brew services stop postgres@14

//Remove PostgreSQL and all related files
$ brew uninstall --force postgres
$ rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres
$ rm -rf .psql_history .psqlrc .psql.local .pgpass .psqlrc.local
$ brew cleanup

Response was more than expected and questions were high quality. Therefore, I thought to quickly write high level summary of presentation in this blog post along with Youtube video that you can find towards the end of this post.

Firewall, Proxy and Reverse Proxy

Before integrating anything with Salesforce, as per Architect, it is necessary which system components are important for security and may impact with integration pattern to be used.

Firewalls : It controls and protects Malicious Traffics. Firewall can be hardware or software based.

Proxy aka Forward Proxy : Proxy normally configured in your browser or systems like VsCode, data loader, eclipse to hide your actual identity. Every outgoing request transmits through proxy server to make sure external systems unaware about your true origin and identity

Reverse Proxy : Its used by Web Servers and sits before it. It can server any purpose like authentication or perform security related stuff. Best example is Mulesoft where we can configure API proxy which is used to apply throttling, avoiding DoS attacks or applying SLA as per licenses provided to customer

Factors affecting Integration Patterns

At high level, there are five types of integration patterns in Salesforce

1. Request and Reply
2. Fire and Forget
3. Batch Data Synchronization
4. Remote Call In
5. Data Virtualization

1. Request and Reply

Few options available in request & reply integration patterns

• External Services
• LWC, Visual force calling external system
• Callouts from Trigger
• Batch Apex invoking external system

2. Fire & Forget

3. Batch Data Synchronization

4. Remote Call-in

5. Data Virtualization

Youtube Video on Salesforce Integration Pattern

Reference

• Mastering Salesforce DX and VSCode
• Platform Event Basics – Trailhead
• Salesforce Documentation on Integration Patterns
• Implementing External Services – Episode 10 of Path to code
• Integrating Salesforce using Rest API – Episode 8 of Path to code

We covered,

• History Of Mulesoft
• What is API Led Connectivity
• Terminologies used in Mulesoft
• How Mulesoft can be used and Deployed
• Resources on getting free training and
• Live Demo , followed by
• Q&A

If you don’t want to miss fun and learning sessions like these, make sure to join our Salesforce developer group here.

Below is slide from group meet

In this post, we will read Pipe delimited file and upsert record in Salesforce. Instead of upserting record in Salesforce, you can do anything else you want to.

This is how final job will look like :

Pipe delimited file that we want to upload looks like, SAART Account Id is external id that would be used for upsert operation.

NAME|SAART ACCOUNT ID
AT&T|2
IBM|1
Salesforce|3

Step 1 is to bring File component in Mule 3 workspace. only two settings I configured

1. Path
2. File Name in “File Name Regex Filter”

Step 2 is to bring Salesforce component. Configure as shown in below image. In my case I’m going to upsert Account on basis of external Id field SAART Account Id

Step 3 is to bring Transform Message between File and Salesforce component in workspace. Right click on Payload and select Set Metadata

After clicking Set Metadata, below screen will appear. We need to choose CSV as Type and add Headers manually.

Next step is to inform Mule that this CSV file would be delimited using pipe operator. Select Transform message and click on Reader Configuration

when popup comes up, set separator as Pipe (|) operator instead of comma

Step 4 : Bring Logger in workspace to show output of Salesforce operation

Running it : Start Mulesoft and put valid file in folder mentioned in Step 1. Mule will process it, delete it and show log in console.

• Nonprofit success Pack Trial
• CPQ Trial
• Mulesoft Anypoint Platform
• Field Service Lightning [FSL] 

Free AppExchange Products

• Agile Development Toolset built by Salesforce
• Metadata Search – Search metadata and Apex classes, Visualforce pages
• Graphics Pack – Hundreds of images to be used in Formula, Visualforce pages by Salesforce
• Side Calendar – Calendar in Sidebar
• Pageblock Table enhancer – Convert Pageblock table to advance datatable in visualforce
• Rest Explorer – If you love workbench to test REST API then you will like this app as well
• Compare Salesforce orgs (web app) – Web based application compares two Salesforce Orgs
• Google Chrome extensions – Set of free Google chrome extensions for Salesforce
• CTU (Clone This User) – Create new user by cloning from existing user, huge time saver for Admins
• Popup alerts – Show popup alerts on Standard Salesforce detail pages with this free appExchange
• Salesforce for Twitter and Facebook – Connect Salesforce with social channels Twitter and Facebook. Monitor online mentions, connect with customers, and promote your brand.
• Pardot Salesforce Connector – Connect pardot with Salesforce Org
• Folderize – Folderize provides the “missing” folder structure for Salesforce Content/Files.
• S4G’s Automated Currency Updater – If you have a multi-currency org, this app is a must! Have all your currencies’ rates updated periodically without manual intervention.
• JSON 2 Apex : Auto generate Apex class on basis of Sample JSON

Mobile

• Notify Me – Free app allowing any user to create personal notifications on any object. Get notified via SMS or email. Workflow is awesome, but NotifyMe empowers your users to make their own notification rules!
• Evernote for Salesforce – Are your users looking for note-taking solutions? This free app allows you to capture notes, links, and attachments, all in context to records in Salesforce.
• S1 Ignition Pack – This is a free pack of six applications to power micro-moments for salespeople in the field. Included are apps for account news, geolocation, cliff notes, and content deliveries, all optimized for the mobile experience. Some of the apps require Heroku, see AppExchange listing for full details.

Paid AppExchange Products

• Echo Sign – E-Signature solution from adobe
• Conga composer – Generate Documents, Presentations and Reports
• Drawloop Document generation service – My post
• Foundation Connect for NGO – Grantee portal
• Continuous Integration using AutoRABIT
• Continuous Integration using Flosum – My Post
• Enabler4Excel – Quickly populate your newly refreshed Salesforce.com Sandbox with a subset of data from your Production org
• Config Workbook – Quickly extract Salesforce metadata in Excel files, ex. Field Level Security, Profile permissions across objects, fields etc, Page Layouts , Permission set assignments, Apex, Visualforce.

Salesforce Instance Health checkup

• Org Doctor
• Octopus – Document all items in Salesforce instance
• Perm-Comparator – Heroku based free application to compare profiles, permission set and users
• Compare profiles, users and permission set in Wave – Wave app for comparing Salesforce User Permissions
• Field Trip – Analyse the fields of any object, including what percentage of the records (or a subset of your records) have that field populated
• Lightning Linter Service – This heroku based application will review Lightning component making sure best practices are followed.
• Metadata Coverage Report – Official Salesforce Matrix of which deployment tool supports metadata component

Database, ETL and Integration tools (Free)

• DBAmp
• Talend
• Salesforce Toolkits – Heoku based application to compare Org, Swithc on-off validation, workflow, process builer and triggers, check if best practices has been followed, schema lister and many more
• SOQL Builder – Heoku based application to query any object without prior knowledge of SOQL

Automated Testing

• Provar
• AssureClick

Must Read Entries

• 96 AppExchange listed by Salesforce in Dreamforce 2015

Salesforce CRM Analytics

• Dataset Util – Utility tool to download datasets from Wave and many more utilities
• Wave Labs – Heroku application to export datasets from Analytics
• Event Monitoring Plus – Collection of CRM Analytics dashboard to analyze Event monitoring in more detail

Free Code

• Chatter Marquee component for Service Cloud
• Get Dependent Picklist value in Apex

Master Data Management (MDM) Solution for Salesforce

• Reltio – Reltio manages all data types including multi-domain master data, transaction and interaction data, third party, public and social data. Data is fused into a new breed of data-driven applications that business teams love to use every day. Its cloud based solution.

Others

• Salesforce Inspector Chrome Plugin