Heroku Connect: Faster, More Reliable Data Sync with Salesforce CDC

Summary

Heroku Connect customers needing current Salesforce data for applications such as custom quoting have faced stale records because legacy synchronization could lag, with Opportunity Line Items among unsupported objects for Accelerated Polling. Heroku is rolling out support for Salesforce Change Data Capture (CDC), allowing Accelerated Polling to listen for changes instead of relying only on the Salesforce Streaming API. That change adds more than 170 Salesforce standard objects to Accelerated Polling, including Opportunity Line Items, Pricebook2, Asset, and OpportunityLineItem, so critical data can synchronize more quickly. To enable it, a Salesforce administrator turns on CDC for selected objects, after which the corresponding Heroku Connect mappings expose the “Uses Accelerated Polling” option.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Salesforce CDC support extends Accelerated Polling to more than 170 new Salesforce standard objects, including Opportunity Line Items.

2. 2

   The previous Accelerated Polling implementation relied on the Salesforce Streaming API, which limited supported objects.

3. 3

   Activation requires enabling CDC in Salesforce and then selecting “Uses Accelerated Polling” in the relevant Heroku Connect mappings.