I'm so fed up with this shit

!rant
Question time for you very few Salesforce devs out there, yea I know there’s some.

Seeing as Google is not my friend today, I’m trying to get SOQL to return null valued fields back to a rest api, something this hunk of shit won’t do, and short of looping back through all the records and injecting these fields back in, I’m at a loss... any advise is welcome 🤯

Salesforce. Although I wasn't involved in the purchase or the implementation, I spent many 100 hour weeks dealing with the crapshoot of an implementation. A large company abused that software to the point of no return. They used that thing for everything, and then they didn't even use it right for the one thing salesforce is good at. So I guess I don't have anything against salesforce itself besides its scalability issues, custom SOQL syntax, user model, and pricing. I'm more upset about the salesforce developers/business owners that decided it was okay to use salesforce for things it was never meant for, like inventory, project management, 3rd party sales team, and so many other things that caused what should have been sub-second queries to take 30 to 60 seconds.

Has any of you worked with someone claiming he's a "Senior Software Engineer" but he does not know what he's doing? I'm not saying I'm a very good developer myself but I know how to differentiate a good code from a garbage code and architecture. It's really becoming a pain in the ass...

[Equifax Recruiter] - Hi, we have an exciting opportunity for you here at Equifax! Innovative... blah blah... J2EE... blah blah... latest technologies... blah blah... greenfield... blah... CORBA... (ok, there wasn't any CORBA)
[Me] - Oh Equifax... how did you get my details?
[ER] - ...

Don't know if it's the worst, but one that's a bit pants is SOQL, Salesforce's bastardised version of SQL. Can't alias columns in a SELECT clause, can't even compare two fields to each other in a WHERE clause.

Don't you just hate it when a git pull request assigned to you doesn't have a descriptive title and no description at all? I think I'm having a migraine! #%!%^*#

Exploring Salesforce: More Than Just a CRM

If you’ve only heard of Salesforce as “that CRM thing sales teams use,” you’re missing out on the full picture. As I recently found out, Salesforce is way more than just a CRM—it’s practically an entire ecosystem for building enterprise-grade applications.

What is Salesforce?
At its core, Salesforce is a cloud-based platform for managing customer data. But beyond the CRM features, it provides a full-stack development environment through its Salesforce Platform.

Languages & Tools

Apex: Proprietary, Java-like language for server-side logic

Visualforce: Old-school templating for UI (mostly replaced now)

Lightning Web Components (LWC): Modern JavaScript framework—actually pretty slick

SOQL: Salesforce’s own query language for working with data

Customization
Salesforce lets you build custom apps, workflows, and automations without spinning up your own backend. Think of it like low-code meets full-code, with tight integration to built-in security, databases, and APIs.

Limits to Watch Out For

Governor limits: To protect shared resources, Salesforce enforces strict limits on how much CPU, DB queries, etc., you can use per transaction.

Deployment can be weird: Changes are deployed using metadata, and you’ll probably need a tool like SFDX or a CI/CD pipeline to stay sane.

Happy to chat with anyone else diving into the ecosystem—bonus points if you’ve got tips for dealing with sandbox madness or deployment XML nightmares.

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