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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By: Andrew Fawcett

Overview of this book

Salesforce makes architecting enterprise grade applications easy and secure – but you'll need guidance to leverage its full capabilities and deliver top-notch products for your customers. This fourth edition brings practical guidance to the table, taking you on a journey through building and shipping enterprise-grade apps. This guide will teach you advanced application architectural design patterns such as separation of concerns, unit testing, and dependency injection. You'll also get to grips with Apex and fflib, create scalable services with Java, Node.js, and other languages using Salesforce Functions and Heroku, and find new ways to test Lightning UIs. These key topics, alongside a new chapter on exploring asynchronous processing features, are unique to this edition. You'll also benefit from an extensive case study based on how the Salesforce Platform delivers solutions. By the end of this Salesforce book, whether you are looking to publish the next amazing application on AppExchange or build packaged applications for your organization, you will be prepared with the latest innovations on the platform.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development
6
Part II: Backend Logic Patterns
11
Part III: Developing the Frontend
14
Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application
21
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Index

FormulaForce Web and API requirements

This chapter continues the theme of using Formula 1 motor racing to explain key concepts. In this case, we will learn how a Formula 1 application would be able to create a web experience for its users.

Like many sports, sponsorship partners are a key aspect of the business, enabling partners to extend, for example, their advertising reach at each race event. We should develop our application to provide additional services to this end. In doing so, remember that you are learning how to create web services for any app you are working on.

In this chapter, we will use Heroku to build a web experience for the public that also supports additional services for sponsorship partners. Partners can log in and obtain key racing insights not available to the public. We will also use Heroku to build services used by the website to retrieve insights, such as last race results, predictions for who might win the current season’s championship, and...