Book Image

Salesforce Lightning Platform Enterprise Architecture - Third Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

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 Einstein Discovery

Einstein Discovery uses AI algorithms to make observations (or insights) about the datasets loaded into Einstein Analytics. To get started, you define a story that begins by asking a simple question—What is it you want to maximize or minimize?—because there can be many ways to achieve this goal. Einstein Discovery is different from Einstein Prediction Builder, which only gives one prediction and does not explain why it has reached its conclusion.

As with Einstein Prediction Builder, you start by choosing a single field that is the sole focus of your goal; this is known as the outcome measure field. This has to be a numeric field, for example, the Amount field on the Opportunity object. The question behind your goal would then be—How do I increase the size of my opportunities? Next, you select influencer...