Summary

In this chapter, we have seen how to scale developer resources for the development of your enterprise application using industry-strength source control tools, development processes, and servers such as Jenkins.

Some of the steps described in this chapter might initially seem excessive and overly complex compared to developing in a more manual way. Ultimately, more time is lost resolving conflicts manually, not to mention the increased risk of losing changes. You might choose to leverage a more dedicated Salesforce CI/CD solution that requires less setup and configuration as these are typically hosted for you, in some cases, within the org itself. If you do, consider what extensibility options are available so you can extend the pipelines with your own scripts and CLI as needed.

Certainly, if your business is aiming to be audited for its development processes, adopting a more controlled approach with tighter controls over who has the ability to package the source code...