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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

Adding AI with Einstein

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become very much the norm in our personal and business lives. The reason for this is the ongoing democratization of cloud-based services that make it increasingly easy to access sophisticated AI algorithms, not just as a consumer via various AIs such as Siri, Alexa, Google, and ChatGPT, but also as a developer. You no longer need to be a data scientist or understand the complexities of creating and executing complex models that drive such AI experiences; what you need is accurate data and a clear idea of the kind of problems—or rather AI-driven predictions—you want to discover. This is harder than you might think. Hence, the real key to AI is not the algorithms; it is the amount and quality of data!

In this chapter, you will gain an appreciation of how Salesforce has democratized these complex new innovations and technologies, helping you to easily extend your application with AI. In the case of the objects...