Preface

Applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations’ IT systems, with more complex and integrated solutions being delivered every day. As a Salesforce developer working with Apex, it is important to understand the range and variety of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and what the best practices are.

This revised second edition includes a complete restructuring and five new chapters filled with detailed content on the latest Salesforce innovations, including integrating with DataWeave in Apex and utilizing Flow and Apex together to build scalable applications with administrators.

This Salesforce book starts with a discussion about common mistakes, debugging, exception handling, and testing. The second section focuses on the different asynchronous Apex programming options to help you build more scalable applications. The third section then focuses on integrations including working with platform events and developing custom Apex REST web services. Finally, the book finishes with a section dedicated to profiling and improving the performance of your Apex, including architecture. With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book, you will be able to develop robust and scalable applications in Apex with confidence.