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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, you have learned about the declarative aspects of developing an application on the platform that apply to how an application is stored and how relational data integrity is enforced through the use of the Lookup field deletion constraints and defining unique fields. The Master-Detail relationships allowed you to model containment concepts in your data model to represent clear ownership concepts for your user’s data. We also learned how to consider the data storage implications of extending your schema across columns instead of rows and the benefits of the cost of storage for your end users. You also learned about a new type of object, known as a Big Object, for storing billions of records in Salesforce.

In this chapter, we have now covered some major aspects of the platform with respect platform alignment, and how your application data is stored, as well as the key aspects of your application’s architecture. Custom Metadata has been used in...