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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

Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

Over the course of this book, you have learned all the principles you need for organized application development using Salesforce. You are now aware of the key concepts you can utilize, and how to implement them with an effective frontend and backend to your application. In the final part of this book, you will now learn how to ensure your application delivers consistent, robust, performant, and intelligent experience while also leveraging further off platform extensibility as required.

By the end of this part, you will have the knowledge you need to implement automated testing within CI/CD processes. This will enable you to share an application that is easy for administrators and developers to configure and extend using no code tools and APIs, performs effectively even when facing a large scale of requests, and is thoroughly tested. Finally, you will learn about ways in which you and those leveraging your application can easily integrate...