Salesforce Integration Guide and Weekly Update

This Salesforce integration guide will help you to understand Salesforce integration Patterns and Integration Best Practices.

What is Salesforce Integration?

Salesforce Integration is a process of connecting two or more applications. Enterprise system uses many applications, many or most of which are not designed to work with one another out of the box. Each application can have data, business logic, presentation, and security layers, all of which are possible targets for integration.

Basic Integration Architecture

Let’s understand the Integration Architecture first. While doing integration we have a different way to integrate the system using point-to-point, hub & spoke, and ESB. All of them have their own benefit.

The Evolution of API

What all Integration options are available in Salesforce?

There are lots of Integration options available in Salesforce. Here is Salesforce Integration Cheatsheet.

Let see different option available in Salesforce and when to use which Salesforce API for Integration.

1. REST API
2. Apex REST API
3. SOAP API
4. Apex SOAP API
5. Chatter REST API
6. Analytics REST API
7. User Interface API
8. Tooling API
9. Bulk API
10. Metadata API
11. Streaming API

Learn more here.

Ways to Fetch data from SFDC

There are different way to fetch data from Salesforce.

1. Change Data Capture
2. Outbound Messaging
3. Apex Custom Code
4. Polling
5. Data Export
6. Salesforce Connector
7. Heroku Connect

Data Integration with Salesforce

There are different way and option are available for Data Integration with Salesforce.

1. Salesforce to External Systems
2. External Systems to Salesforce
3. Salesforce to Salesforce

Salesforce Integration Patterns

There are different Integration patters like request and reply/response, Fire and forget, Batch Data Synchronization, Remote Call In, and Data Virtualization.?

Check our all session video here

Enterprise Integration in Salesforce

In this post, we will talk about Enterprise Integration and how enterprise organizations connected their business ecosystem with different integration technology. Let’s start with What is enterprise integration?

1. Middleware(App Glue) In Enterprise Context
2. Enterprise Application Integration With ESB
3. API Gateway : ESB Antipattern
4. Difference Between API Gateway?VS?ESB

Check our Enterprise Integration post to learn more.

Weekly Update in Apex Hours

Here are some Key highlights from Apex Hours.

1. Salesforce Login: How to login in Salesforce? There are different way to login into Salesforce. You can login into using production URL, Sandbox URL, Custom Domain, Single Sign-on, Lightning login and Login Flows In Salesforce. Let see how all Login option works
2. Salesforce Integration Guide: In this post, we will about is Salesforce Integration and different way to integrate Salesforce System with external systems. This Salesforce integration guide will help you to understand Salesforce integration Patterns and Integration Best Practices. Let’s understand What is Salesforce Integration? and start our Salesforce Integration Crash course.
3. CI/CD pipeline using Gitlab for Salesforce: Join us to learn about how to build CI/CD pipeline using Gitlab for Salesforce. Learn how to get started quickly with CI/CD using GitLab and Salesforce DX tools. In this post we will talk about step by step process to setup setup CI/CD pipeline for Salesforce.

Apex Hours Sessions

1. Design Thinking for Salesforce Professionals

2. Getting started with Clayton

Getting started with Clayton. The first git based, AI-powered code review assistant for Salesforce Developer

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