Summary

In this chapter, you have dived into the details of the Salesforce development life cycle and deployment domain. You learned what is expected from a CTA to cover and the level of detail. You dissected some key principles, such as DevOps, CI/CD, multi-layered development environments, and SCM. Then, you learned about their importance and their impact on the development and release cycle.

As you might have already noticed, the scope of this domain is limited. The key challenge with such domains is in the depth of knowledge, understanding why some best practices are there and how to implement them.

Then, you tackled a small hypothetical scenario that focused on the development life cycle and deployment, and you provided solutions for it and created some catchy presentation pitches. You developed a development and release diagram that could be easily reused for other scenarios (with minor changes), and you learned how to present this to an audience to capture their attention...