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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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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to scale developer resources for the development of your enterprise application using industry-strength source control tools, development processes, and servers such as Jenkins.

Some of the steps described in this chapter might initially seem excessive and overly complex compared to developing in a more manual way. Ultimately, more time is lost resolving conflicts manually, not to mention the increased risk of losing changes. You might choose to leverage a more dedicated Salesforce CI/CD solution that requires less setup and configuration as these are typically hosted for you, in some cases, within the org itself. If you do, consider what extensibility options are available so you can extend the pipelines with your own scripts and CLI as needed.

Certainly, if your business is aiming to be audited for its development processes, adopting a more controlled approach with tighter controls over who has the ability to package the source code...