Development on Salesforce has seen major changes in the last few years. SDD has made it possible for teams to match their Salesforce processes to the best modern DevOps approaches. Fundamentally, SDD depends on version control, automated deployments, and coding your data’s metadata. With benefits like consistency, traceability, and automation, such changes introduce new challenges about how versions and metadata should be managed throughout the project.

Here, we’ll look at SDD principles and guide you through properly managing metadata and API versions in a Salesforce environment.