Salesforce Platform Events
An event-driven architecture is built around events (meaningful state changes), producers , consumers , and channels that carry event messages between them. Producers don’t know who consumes their events, and consumers don’t care who produced them—this decoupling is what gives you flexibility and scalability in distributed systems. In Salesforce, the primary building blocks for this are: Platform Events — custom event definitions and messages Change Data Capture (CDC) — events for data changes on standard/custom objects Streaming / Pub/Sub API — external systems subscribe/publish Apex, Flows, and External Services — to publish/consume inside Salesforce What Platform Events Are Platform Events are Salesforce’s enterprise messaging mechanism used to publish and subscribe to real‑time event data across Salesforce and external systems. Core Usage of Platform Events Real‑time integrations — Connect Salesforce with external systems using event-driven architecture. Decoupled busin...