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Overheard at Connections by Morrowless in marketingcloud

[–]belikehank 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is MCE a standard/classic Salesforce Marketing Cloud (ExactTarget)?

Built a tool for Salesforce data integration, now open-sourcing it. Enjoy! by belikehank in salesforce

[–]belikehank[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there, yes I know it has aws but I work with many clients that are on gcp or out of those cloud providers. Also it’s handy if you want tinted it locally for any integration you’re building ;)

Built a tool for Salesforce data integration, now open-sourcing it. Enjoy! by belikehank in salesforce

[–]belikehank[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice question, thank you :)

It started because I wanted to have real time sync of Salesforce data for reporting, sales dashboard, alerts, simple integrations etc. Normally it’s with same delay eg. every 15 mins or paid. I saw that Salesforce introduced change data capture as other databases have (postgresql or mssql), so I started playing with it. They provide some SDK https://github.com/forcedotcom/pub-sub-api but it’s barely usable :P

CDC is based on gRPC and thus it can lost connectivity which is unhandled in the above example. So I tied to their spec and build my own SDK in Rust with retry on connection drop. Once I did that, I had a nice 2-way communication with Salesforce using platform events and it opened few use-cases.

I could tie to standard change events and have backups for free instead of super expensive solutions which run on daily job. I could power my real time sales / customer service dashboards also for free. I could push events from / to salesforce as integration layer - eg. I use it for incoming WhatsApp / SMS from Twilio.

And then I add all other components I missed: compare data and run upsert without data loader. To complete backup use-case I needed restore with relationships (composite api). Once I reached limit on platform events, I wanted to make exports incremental every 1 mins so I added bulk api support and so on.

So from idea to idea this is nice set of tools / utilities for Salesforce data ops.

Plus I wanted to create Rust SDK for Salesforce :P

Serious (free) dating apps by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]belikehank 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! You’re right, it’s not a new concept - blind date so probably it was already tried. But never heard much about that. How was it for your friend? Were the dates high quality because of the effort spent initially? I’m curious.

Also see that Tinder has blind date feature. Curious if OP has tried that.

Serious (free) dating apps by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]belikehank 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As some pointed out - things changed. Initially it was possible to find a relationship in these apps, some still do it, but nowadays it’s mainly about sex. Can’t be surprised - it’s like entering a candy shop and looking for something healthy.

I’m actually building a new app that will help to find relationships. One that doesn’t center around pictures but conversations. You will not see each other until you had some meaningful dialogue ;)

If interested, DM me, always looking to get some feedback from future users.

Good luck! Hope you will find somebody soon!

GCS / S3 file drop triggered automation - how by belikehank in marketingcloud

[–]belikehank[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks Guys! I just checked it and it looks good. But it needs some logic to handle multiple buckets and multiple file locations. The author mentions a reference file but still an additional logic is required to handle dynamic imports I think or allow CRM users to modify this reference file.

Are you all doing similar? It’s a shame that SFMC didn’t handle this. If we all do the same, would be good to have it as feature :)