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Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture - Fourth Edition

By : Andrew Fawcett
Book Image

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

Managing performance and response times

The response times in your solutions can make a big difference to the usability of the application. This section provides information on how to monitor and manage response times in Lightning.

Lightning tools to monitor size and response times

In Lightning, it is important to monitor the complexity of your component hierarchy. While it is good to componentize for reasons of separation of concerns, too much of it can result in a heavy component tree and result in poor performance.

Within the Lightning App Builder tool, you can click on the Analyze button to get a summary of page load times, as shown in the screenshot below:

Figure 9.14: Analysis of page load time

You can also see a breakdown of which components are taking time to load, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 9.15: Further details affecting the page load time

You can also use the Lightning Usage Application in production to monitor slow...