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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)
1
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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22
Index

Solution overview

Before going deeper into how Heroku and Salesforce Functions are used to accomplish the use cases described in the previous section, let us review the overall components that will be built and how they interact with the FormulaForce application built so far.

The following solution overview diagram shows on the left the web (1) and API (2) experiences built with Heroku and how they interact with data stored in Heroku Postgres (3 and 4) and within the org (5). On the right, the diagram shows a Function (6) interacting with the same org data and the FormulaForce Lightning application as drivers check in to the race location. Finally, both the API (2) and Function (6) are exposed to the rest of the Lightning application via their own Apex Service layer classes (7 and 8).

Figure 8.6: Interaction between the FomulaForce public website and application

The above diagram makes use of the Service layer concept we discussed in Chapter 5, Application...