Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition: Architect and deliver packaged Force.com applications that cater to enterprise business needs

by Andrew Fawcett

Overview

Companies of all sizes have seen the need for Force.com's architectural strategy focused on enabling their business objectives. Successful enterprise applications require planning, commitment, and investment in the best tools, processes, and features available.

This book will teach you how to architect and support enduring applications for enterprise clients with Salesforce by exploring how to identify architecture needs and design solutions based on industry standard patterns. There are several ways to build solutions on Force.com, and this book will guide you through a logical path and show you the steps and considerations required to build packaged solutions from start to finish. It covers all aspects, from engineering to getting your application into the hands of your customers, and ensuring that they get the best value possible from your Force.com application. You will get acquainted with extending tools such as Lightning App Builder, Process Builder, and Flow with your own application logic. In addition to building your own application API, you will learn the techniques required to leverage the latest Lightning technologies on desktop and mobile platforms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786465054
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	504
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Andrew Fawcett has over 25 years of experience, holding several software development-related roles with increasing focus and responsibility around enterprise-level product architectures with major international accounting and ERP software vendors over the years. He is experienced in performing and managing all aspects of the software development life cycle across various technology platforms, frameworks, industry design patterns, and methodologies, more recently Salesforce's Force.com and Heroku.
He is currently a CTO, Salesforce MVP, and Salesforce Certified Advanced Developer within a UNIT4 and Salesforce.com funded startup, FinancialForce.com. He is responsible for driving platform adoption, relationship, and technical strategy across the product suite. He is an avid blogger, open source contributor and project owner, and an experienced speaker at various Salesforce and FinancialForce.com events.
He loves watching movies and Formula1 motor racing and building cloud-controlled Lego robots! You can find him on Twitter at @andyinthecloud, and his Lego robot Twitter handle and website is @brickinthecloud.
You can visit his LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyfawcett and his website at https://andyinthecloud.com/.

Table of Contents

1. Building, Publishing, and Supporting Your Application
2. Leveraging Platform Features
3. Application Storage
4. Apex Execution and Separation of Concerns
5. Application Service Layer
6. Application Domain Layer
7. Application Selector Layer
8. User Interface
9. Lightning
10. Providing Integration and Extensibility
11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes
12. Unit Testing
13. Source Control and Continuous Integration