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

Additional Languages, Compute, and Data Services

In this chapter, we continue to focus on ways to build application logic by referencing the Service layer pattern to ensure that, even when Apex is not used as a programming language, we have continued alignment with the Service layer principles. Apex is a unique object-orientated language and continues to be tightly integrated within the platform tools and the transactional context. However, there are times when your own skills and those of others in your company enable you to leverage other programming languages and open source resources that can help get the job done faster. Additionally, you may need to go beyond Apex heap, CPU, and asynchronous limits or wish to maintain certain data outside of the structure of a Custom Object and org. This chapter will focus on such options for backend logic and additional data storage. The next chapter, Chapter 9, Building User Interfaces, describes the use of Node.js to build web components...