MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers: A practitioner's guide to deploying MuleSoft APIs and integrations for Salesforce enterprise solutions

by Arul Christhuraj Alphonse, Alexandra Martinez, Akshata Sawant

Overview

MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you’re a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills.
This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you’ll be ready to create Mule applications. You’ll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you’ll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you’ll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips.
By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification – MCD.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781801074223
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	490
File size:	32 MB
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About the Author

Arul Christhuraj Alphonse is a senior integration architect based in Singapore with over 20 years of experience in the integration and API domain. He has worked at Akmin Technologies, Quinnox, IBM, TCS, and Cognizant, designing over 1,000 integrations. Arul holds a Master of Computer Applications and an MBA, along with multiple certifications, including MuleSoft Mentor, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, and SoftwareAG webMethods Certified Professional. Passionate about sharing knowledge, he creates courses on Udemy and runs the Tech Lightning YouTube channel. Born in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India, he now lives in Singapore, contributing to the global tech community.
Alexandra Martinez is a developer advocate at MuleSoft, creating technical content to enable developers and architects to get started with MuleSoft's products. Before this, Alex worked as a MuleSoft developer and was part of the MuleSoft community as an Ambassadress and meetup leader for the Toronto, Online Spanish, and Women Who Mule chapters. Alex has 10+ years of experience in technology and has developed software in other languages, such as Java, Python, and PHP. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Alexandra's MuleSoft career was key to moving to a different country, and she currently lives in Niagara Falls, Canada. Alex volunteers at organizations such as Women Who Code and Olascoaga MX to help close the gender gap in STEM careers.
Akshata Sawant is a Senior Developer Advocate at Salesforce based in London. A distinguished technical speaker, she was named Rising Star of the Year (UK) 2024 by Digital Revolution Awards. Despite a short career span, she has spoken at top conferences, including Dreamforce, London's Calling, Salesforce TDX, Devoxx Belgium, DevOpsDays Geneva, and APIDays. Beyond speaking, Akshata is a prolific writer, regularly publishing blogs and articles. She also conducts training sessions and workshops for the Salesforce community. Born in Mumbai, she now shares knowledge globally through talks, podcasts, blogs, and livestreams. Connect with her on LinkedIn to explore APIs, AI, and Integration.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to MuleSoft
2. Design your API
3. Exploring Anypoint Studio
4. Core Components
5. All About Anypoint Platform
6. LearningTransform with Dataweave
7. Transform with DataWeave
8. Build your Mule Application
9. Deploy your application
10. Secure your API
11. Testing your application
12. MuleSoft integration with Salesforce
13. MuleSoft connectors and Use cases
14. MuleSoft Best practices, Tip and Tricks
15. Mulesoft Certification and Interview Tips