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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

Backend Logic Patterns

Now that you have been introduced to the key concepts that guide your objectives and approaches as a Salesforce developer, you are ready to dive much deeper into how the backend of an application can be cleanly written. The second part of this book is inspired by the development strategies elaborated by Martin Fowler and guides you on how to implement enterprise coding patterns.

By the end of this part, you will be able to write proficient code with organization and purpose. You will be able to take advantage of Apex to the benefit of your application, utilizing concepts such as separation of concerns, the Unit of Work pattern, and bulkification. Should you require additional programming languages, compute, and data scale you will learn how Heroku and Functions can be used to extend your application logic and user experiences.

This part comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 5, Application Service Layer
  • Chapter 6, Application Domain...