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Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available. This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Creating test data for volume testing


Throughout this chapter, we are going to use the RaceData__c object. We will be extending it with additional fields and running a script to populate it with some test volume data, before exploring the different ways of accessing it and processing the data held within it.

In the Formula1 racing world, a huge amount of data is captured from the drivers and the cars during the race. This information is used to perform real-time or post race analysis in order to lead to further improvements or troubleshoot issues. Because of the huge volumes of data involved, the FormulaForce application considers ways to summarize this data such that it can be removed and later reloaded easily if required.

The following functionalities will be added to the FormulaForce application to process this information and help demonstrate the Force.com features described in this chapter. The Apex classes and Visualforce page for this functionality is included in the sample code for...