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MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By : Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant
Book Image

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers

By: Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

Overview of this book

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills. This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips. By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Getting Started with MuleSoft
7
Part 2: A Deep Dive into MuleSoft
14
Part 3: Integration with Salesforce and Other Connectors

Best practices

These are a set of rules you don’t necessarily have to follow in order for your applications to work properly, but are a huge help to guide you through what you can do to make your projects better. We will list different best practices ranging from design and development to some security and architecture tips.

As previously mentioned, you are not required to apply these rules to your projects or applications, but they will help you to be more successful with your projects. Feel free to take the ones that apply to you or modify some of them to better fit your needs. The purpose of this list is to help you build your own best practices based on these.

Let’s start with some general best practices.

General best practices

Here are some best practices that you can apply to your projects in general.

  • Add a health-check endpoint: Create a specific endpoint, such as /ping, to get the API’s running status. This is helpful to monitor the...