Salesforce Platform Foundations

Salesforce Platform FoundationsHow the multi-tenant, metadata-driven platform works: data model, security & sharing, Flow, governor limits, developer tooling and application lifecycle.

Platform Architecture, Orgs and Releases: How Salesforce's multi-tenant, metadata-driven platform actually works, the kinds of orgs you'll build in, how editions, licenses and the three-releases-a-year cadence affect your code, and where Apex, Flow, LWC and the APIs fit.

The Salesforce Data Model: Objects, fields, relationships and naming conventions in depth: every field type and its gotchas, lookup vs master-detail, junctions, polymorphic fields, Big Objects, External Objects, Custom Metadata vs Custom Settings, field history, describe calls and data skew.

Declarative Customization: A developer's guide to the point-and-click layer: formulas, validation rules, layouts, Lightning App Builder, Dynamic Forms and Actions, apps, list views, paths, custom permissions, actions, duplicate management, approvals, reports, and where declarative limits push you to code.

Security and the Sharing Model: The complete Salesforce security model, layer by layer: authentication, profiles, permission sets and groups, object and field permissions, org-wide defaults, role hierarchy, sharing rules, teams, territories, implicit and Apex managed sharing, restriction and scoping rules, debugging access, and Shield.

Flow Automation for Developers: A developer's guide to Salesforce Flow: every flow type, how the runtime bulkifies interviews, $Record and entry conditions, fault handling, Apex interop in both directions, LWC screen components, testing and debugging, and how to make flows and triggers coexist on the same object.

Order of Execution and Governor Limits: What happens, step by step, when a record is saved, and the multi-tenant governor limits that every trigger, flow and API call must respect. Covers recursion, transaction boundaries, the Limits class, CPU-time pitfalls and how to monitor org-wide allocations.

Developer Tooling: SF CLI, VS Code and Orgs: The modern Salesforce developer toolchain end to end: the sf CLI and its plugins, org authorization, DX project structure, scratch orgs, shapes and snapshots, source tracking, manifests, data commands, the VS Code extensions, Agentforce Vibes and MCP, Code Analyzer v5 and Prettier, with a full walkthrough from empty folder to deployed change.

Application Lifecycle Management and DevOps: How Salesforce teams move changes safely from idea to production: development models, sandbox strategy, Metadata API deployments, validation and quick deploy, test levels, destructive changes, DevOps Center, a complete GitHub Actions pipeline with JWT and delta deployments, unlocked and 2GP managed packages, branching, rollback and the DevOps tool landscape.

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