Thinking About Apex: What Are the Most Important Things I Need To Know About Force.com?
The second post for the Thinking About Apex: A Salesforce Architect’s Perspective series has been published. With What Are the Most Important Things I Need To Know About Force.com? I have detailed four key concepts that I feel Salesforce developers have to grasp about the Force.com platform in order to make the conceptual leaps necessary to become effective Apex developers:
- Every Salesforce Customer Uses Shared Infrastructure
- The Force.com Platform is an Abstraction of the Underlying Infrastructure
- Apex is an Abstraction of the Force.com Platform
- Salesforce Development is Metadata-Driven

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