Backend Logic Patterns

Now that you have been introduced to the key concepts that guide your objectives and approaches as a Salesforce developer, you are ready to dive much deeper into how the backend of an application can be cleanly written. The second part of this book is inspired by the development strategies elaborated by Martin Fowler and guides you on how to implement enterprise coding patterns.

By the end of this part, you will be able to write proficient code with organization and purpose. You will be able to take advantage of Apex to the benefit of your application, utilizing concepts such as separation of concerns, the Unit of Work pattern, and bulkification. Should you require additional programming languages, compute, and data scale you will learn how Heroku and Functions can be used to extend your application logic and user experiences.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Application Service Layer
• Chapter 6, Application Domain...