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

FormulaForce Web and API requirements

This chapter continues the theme of using Formula 1 motor racing to explain key concepts. In this case, we will learn how a Formula 1 application would be able to create a web experience for its users.

Like many sports, sponsorship partners are a key aspect of the business, enabling partners to extend, for example, their advertising reach at each race event. We should develop our application to provide additional services to this end. In doing so, remember that you are learning how to create web services for any app you are working on.

In this chapter, we will use Heroku to build a web experience for the public that also supports additional services for sponsorship partners. Partners can log in and obtain key racing insights not available to the public. We will also use Heroku to build services used by the website to retrieve insights, such as last race results, predictions for who might win the current season’s championship, and...