Mastering Apex programming: a Salesforce developer's guide to learn advanced techniques and programming best practices for building robust and scalable enterprise grade applications (Revised edition.)

Advance your Apex programming skills to the next level with best practices, proven techniques, and practical code samples with this updated edition along with the most recent advancements in Apex

Key Features

• Understand the various integration asynchronous processing options in Apex and how to use them to scale you application
• Learn how to integrate external systems with Apex through both inbound and outbound integrations
• Profile and improve the performance of your Apex code

Book Description

Applications built on the Salesforce platform are now a key part of many organizations' IT systems, with more complex and integrated solutions being delivered every day. As a Salesforce developer working with Apex, it is important to understand the range and variety of tools at your disposal, how and when to use them, and what the best practices are.This revised edition includes a complete restructuring and 6 new chapters filled with detailed content on the latest Salesforce innovations including integrating with Salesforce Functions, DataWeave in Apex, and utilizing Flow and Apex together to build scalable applications with Administrators.The book starts with a discussion around common mistakes, debugging, exception handling and testing. The second section focuses on the different asynchronous Apex programming options to help you build more scalable applications, before the third section focusses on integrations including working with platform events, and developing custom Apex REST web services. Finally, the book finishes with a section dedicated to profiling and improving the performance of your Apex including architecture. With code examples used to facilitate discussion throughout, by the end of the book you will be able to develop robust and scalable applications in Apex with confidence.

What you will learn

• Understand common coding mistakes in Apex and how to avoid them using best practices
• Find out how to debug a Salesforce Apex application effectively
• Explore different asynchronous Apex options and their common use cases
• Discover tips to work effectively with platform events
• Develop custom Apex REST services to allow inbound integrations
• Develop custom outbound integrations in Apex REST and SOAP APIs to allow
• Learn to use DataWeave functions to parse and manipulate data easily
• Build complex logic and processes on the Salesforce platform

Who this book is for

Developers who have basic to intermediate Apex programming knowledge and are interested in mastering Apex programming while exploring the Salesforce.com platform. This book is also ideal for experienced Java or C# developers who are moving to Apex programming for developing apps on the Salesforce platform. Basic Apex programming knowledge is assumed.

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