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Salesforce DevOps guides, release management practices and technical deep-dives from the Blue Canvas team.

Role & Permission Management

Deploying Profiles and Permission Sets

Blue Canvas is excited to offer a free tool to the community for deploying Salesforce’s trickiest metadata type.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer2 min read
Role & Permission Management

Salesforce Profile Scalability

When your business grows, so do the complexities of managing user access in Salesforce. Ensuring the right people have the right permissions without compromising security can feel overwhelming. That’s where the concept of Salesforce profile scalability becomes essential. It’s all about creating flexible, efficient profiles that adapt as your team and processes evolve.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer7 min read
Architecture and Resources

A Preview of Our Source Control for Salesforce UI

Blue Canvas offers real-time tracking of Salesforce Orgs through Git, enabling easy syncing, comparison, and rollback of changes. Deployments are faster.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
Architecture and Resources

Thanks, Joe

MavensMate, a popular Salesforce development tool, is being sunsetted. Salesforce's official VS Code plugin and The Welkin Suite are alternatives. Other options remain uncertain.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer3 min read
New Features

5 Reasons You Should Go To TrailheaDX 2017

Salesforce's Dreamforce event has become too large for developers, so they launched TrailheaDX, a more intimate and targeted conference for developers.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer4 min read
New Features

Blue Canvas at Dreamforce '16

Blue Canvas will attend Dreamforce in a low-key style, but they want to meet attendees to demo new features and ideas. They'll be in the Dev Zone and attending two parties.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer1 min read
Salesforce DevOps

Are Your Metrics Really Helping You?

Metrics don't have to be complex to be effective. A "metrics driven" approach can be as simple as focusing on a few key, actionable metrics.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read
Admin Tips

Blue Canvas and Git Flow

Salesforce developers and admins are seeking tooling to adopt best practices for Continuous Delivery and source control, with Blue Canvas offering a Git flow solution.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer2 min read
Best Practices

Optimizations for Salesforce Orgs with Lots of Data (Part 1)

As the volume of data in your Salesforce org grows, so can pain points around performance. This is Part 1 of a 4 part series on how to optimize your Salesforce org for performance.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer7 min read
Salesforce DevOps

Salesforce DX Directory Conversion Help

Blue Canvas helps companies use Salesforce DX more easily by providing a layer of UI on top of DX that generates its benefits without the hassle of setup.

Randalyn Hill-Coffer5 min read

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Over 850 million lines of code are securely backed up with Blue Canvas, empowering enterprises to continuously deploy and rollback in Salesforce with ease and maintain environment parity across orgs.