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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

You're reading from   Salesforce DevOps for Architects Discover tools and techniques to optimize the delivery of your Salesforce projects

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Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636051
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rob Cowell Rob Cowell
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Rob Cowell is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate at a leading platform provider in this space. He uses his wealth of experience as a Salesforce Dev and Architect to guide and advise on best practice for Salesforce DevOps. He has gained a unique insight into Salesforce trends and challenges over the years, and uses this to help organizations of all shapes and sizes to optimize their Salesforce processes. Alongside his day job, he is an active participant of the Salesforce community, providing support and sharing experiences to help others thrive.
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Lars Malmqvist is a 32x certified Salesforce CTA and has spent the past 15 years in the Salesforce ecosystem building advanced solutions on the platform. Currently, he works as a partner in the management consultancy, Implement Consulting Group, focusing on supporting large Nordic Salesforce clients in their transformation journeys. He has published two books, Architecting AI Solutions on Salesforce and Salesforce Anti-Patterns, both with Packt publishing.
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: A Brief History of Deploying Salesforce Changes 2. Chapter 2: Developing a DevOps Culture FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: The Value of Source Control 4. Chapter 4: Testing Your Changes 5. Chapter 5: Day-to-Day Delivery with SFDX 6. Chapter 6: Exploring Packaging 7. Chapter 7: CI/CD Automation 8. Chapter 8: Ticketing Systems 9. Chapter 9: Backing Up Data and Metadata 10. Chapter 10: Monitoring for Changes 11. Chapter 11: Data Seeding Your Development Environments 12. Chapter 12: Salesforce DevOps Tools – Gearset 13. Chapter 13: Copado 14. Chapter 14: Salesforce DevOps Tools – Flosum 15. Chapter 15: AutoRABIT 16. Chapter 16: Other Salesforce DevOps Tools 17. Chapter 17: Conclusion 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Force.com IDE and Mavensmate

With new tools that leveraged Metadata and Tooling APIs, it was no longer necessary to develop for the Salesforce platform from within the platform. To assist developers with this approach, Salesforce started looking at how best to deliver a standardized developer experience that matched the standards of the time. Let’s run through the tools available at that time.

The Force.com IDE

One of the early IDEs that took advantage of this was Salesforce’s own Force.com IDE.

Built on top of the modular plugin architecture of the popular Eclipse development environment that was predominantly used for Java, the Force.com IDE took advantage of the new APIs to allow developers to not only code with a proper editor but also to save their changes back in their development organizations, directly from the IDE, without having to switch back to the Salesforce user interface.

The Force.com IDE became very popular very quickly, as it was the...

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Rob Cowell is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate at a leading platform provider in this space. He uses his wealth of experience as a Salesforce Dev and Architect to guide and advise on best practice for Salesforce DevOps. He has gained a unique insight into Salesforce trends and challenges over the years, and uses this to help organizations of all shapes and sizes to optimize their Salesforce processes. Alongside his day job, he is an active participant of the Salesforce community, providing support and sharing experiences to help others thrive.
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Lars Malmqvist is a 32x certified Salesforce CTA and has spent the past 15 years in the Salesforce ecosystem building advanced solutions on the platform. Currently, he works as a partner in the management consultancy, Implement Consulting Group, focusing on supporting large Nordic Salesforce clients in their transformation journeys. He has published two books, Architecting AI Solutions on Salesforce and Salesforce Anti-Patterns, both with Packt publishing.
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