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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)

Understanding Salesforce Einstein services and products

Salesforce provides a number of services and features, both general and specific, related to AI so as to suit different types of users, use cases, and product features. Regardless of whether you are a developer, an admin, or an end user of one of the specific clouds (such as Sales Cloud), there is likely something for you. As you would expect, the options open to developers or admins help fill in any specific gaps where Salesforce has not delivered a specific prediction need. In this section, and those that follow, we will explore these services in detail.

For administrators and data analysts, these are the options:

  • Einstein Prediction Builder: This works with the data stored in custom or standard objects to look for ways to predict a given outcome, such as the likelihood of a given customer paying on time or&...