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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

Salesforce DevOps for Architects

By : Cowell, Lars Malmqvist
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Salesforce DevOps for Architects

Salesforce DevOps for Architects

4.8 (11)
By: Cowell, Lars Malmqvist

Overview of this book

Rob Cowell is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate with extensive experience as a Salesforce Developer and Architect, guiding best practices for Salesforce DevOps. Lars Malmqvist, a 32x certified Salesforce CTA, has 15 years of experience building advanced Salesforce solutions and is the author of two books, Architecting AI Solutions on Salesforce and Salesforce Anti-Patterns. As the Salesforce Platform evolves, architects face increasing demand for advanced solutions. This book serves as your definitive guide to mastering effective DevOps practices crucial for successful Salesforce projects. Beginning with cultivating a DevOps mindset focused on collaboration and communication, it emphasizes governance, visibility, and accountability. You'll delve into tools and techniques, leveraging the robust capabilities of SFDX to craft your strategy efficiently. This book stands out for its practical approach to Salesforce packaging and CI/CD stack creation, guiding you to build a seamless automated change delivery system with freely available software. It addresses critical operational concerns such as ticket management, backups, change monitoring, and data seeding. In the final chapters, you'll discover third-party solutions to expedite your Salesforce DevOps journey, empowering you to deliver sophisticated and efficient projects.
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The Force.com IDE and Mavensmate

With new tools that leveraged Metadata and Tooling APIs, it was no longer necessary to develop for the Salesforce platform from within the platform. To assist developers with this approach, Salesforce started looking at how best to deliver a standardized developer experience that matched the standards of the time. Let’s run through the tools available at that time.

The Force.com IDE

One of the early IDEs that took advantage of this was Salesforce’s own Force.com IDE.

Built on top of the modular plugin architecture of the popular Eclipse development environment that was predominantly used for Java, the Force.com IDE took advantage of the new APIs to allow developers to not only code with a proper editor but also to save their changes back in their development organizations, directly from the IDE, without having to switch back to the Salesforce user interface.

The Force.com IDE became very popular very quickly, as it was the...

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