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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce Lightning provides a secure and scalable platform to build, deploy, customize, and upgrade applications. This book will take you through the architecture of building an application on the Lightning platform to help you understand its features and best practices, and ensure that your app keeps up with your customers’ increasing needs as well as the innovations on the platform. This book guides you in working with the popular aPaaS offering from Salesforce, the Lightning Platform. You’ll see how to build and ship enterprise-grade apps that not only leverage the platform's many productivity features, but also prepare your app to harness its extensibility and customization capabilities. You'll even get to grips with advanced application architectural design patterns such as Separation of Concerns, Unit Testing and Dependency Integration. You will learn to use Apex and JavaScript with Lightning Web Components, Platform Events, among others, with the help of a sample app illustrating patterns that will ensure your own applications endure and evolve with the platform. Finally, you will become familiar with using Salesforce DX to develop, publish, and monitor a sample app and experience standard application life cycle processes along with tools such as Jenkins to implement CI/CD. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to develop effective business apps and be ready to explore innovative ways to meet customer demands.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Handling billions of records with big objects

Lightning Platform inherits relational database design principles and values in a very explicit way and, when you create Custom Objects or when you add lookup or master-detail fields, you are defining a relationship. It is, of course, no secret that Salesforce themselves uses the Oracle relational database management system (RDBMS) under the hood to support this. Defining data in a relational way is a very powerful feature, allowing a rich set of domain-specific data to be expressed, as we have seen with Seasons, Teams, Races, and Contestants so far in this book. We have also seen how we can use access patterns such as SOQL and DML to access that data as a whole in one operation if needed through the use of query joins or transactions (unit of work) when updating data over several objects. This behavior is categorized by the acronym...