Mastering Apex Programming: A Salesforce developer's guide to learn advanced techniques and programming best practices for building robust and scalable enterprise-grade applications

by Paul Battisson

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 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 second edition includes a complete restructuring and six new chapters filled with detailed content on the latest Salesforce innovations including integrating with DataWeave in Apex, and utilizing Flow and Apex together to build scalable applications with Administrators. This Salesforce 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 focuses 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. 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.

394 pages, Paperback

Published November 29, 2023

About the author

Paul has been working with Salesforce since 2010 and has held a variety of roles across both the product development and consultancy spaces. He is the founder and co-organiser of the Salesforce Leeds Developer Group and has received the Salesforce MVP award 7 times.

Paul has spoken on a range of Salesforce topics over 20 times at a number of events including multiple Dreamforce and London's Calling events, India Dreamin, and DreamOle. Some of his more popular talks included subjects such as microservices, machine learning with Apex, and building virtual reality systems on the Salesforce platform.

He is the author of two books on Apex, "Learning Salesforce Development With Apex" and "Mastering Apex Programming", designed to help those working with Apex at different levels improve their understanding and use of the language. His course on Udemy, "Astronomical Apex Testing" has an average rating of 4.36 stars and he runs the "CloudBitesTV" YouTube channel which has amassed over 100k views of Salesforce related content. You can read his blog at paulbattisson.com and find CloudBitesTV content at cloudbites.tv.