You're reading from Salesforce Platform Enterprise Architecture- fourth edition A must-read guide to help you architect and deliver packaged applications for enterprise needs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619773

Length 712 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Solution Architecture

Author (1):

Andrew Fawcett

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Key Concepts for Application Development

2. Building and Publishing Your Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Leveraging Platform Features

4. Application Storage

5. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns

6. Part II: Backend Logic Patterns

7. Application Service Layer

8. Application Domain Layer

9. Application Selector Layer

10. Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

11. Part III: Developing the Frontend

12. Building User Interfaces

13. User Interfaces and the Lightning Component Framework

14. Part IV: Extending, Scaling, and Testing an Application

15. Providing Integration and Extensibility

16. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

17. Unit Testing

18. Source Control and Continuous Integration

19. Integrating with External Services

20. Adding AI with Einstein

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Implementation of design guidelines

Having studied the separation of concerns in the previous chapter and reflected in the previous illustration, the following design guidelines help to ensure that the Service layer is agnostic of the caller, easy to locate, and encourages some Salesforce Platform best practices, such as bulkification. Note that bulkification is not just a concept for Apex Triggers; all the logic in your application must make efficient use of governed resources.

Naming conventions

A colleague of mine used to reference the following when talking about naming:

”There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

– Phil Karlton

In my career so far, I have come to realize that there is some truth in this statement. Naming conventions have never been as important on the Salesforce Platform as they are currently, as it lacks a means to group or structure code, such as by using...