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Heroku and Salesforce: From Idea to App (Part 1)

As someone who became a Salesforce developer by accident 10 years ago and parlayed that into a career and business, I’m fully aware of the dividends that investing in continuous learning and brushing up on the latest in my industry can yield.  Even after years of working in the Salesforce ecosystem, earning 11 certifications, and going through several hundred different projects, I’ve found it’s difficult to make the time to keep up with all the new tools and features of modern development (and usually I have the TrailheaDX and Dreamforce conferences each year to get caught up!).  

Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, in-person conferences are canceled. However, a new video series piqued my interest. In particular, two Salesforce Developer Advocates, Mohith Shrivastava and Julián Duque, are doing a series on Modern App Development on Heroku/Salesforce.

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A Complete Guide To Develop A Cloud-Based Application

The term cloud computing is all the rage at present. Businesses from across the globe are more inclined towards cloud-based technology and are rapidly hosting in the cloud.

We can say that the cloud is a platform that hosts an abundance of computing resources over the internet as an easy-to-use and on-demand utility that can be utilized on a pay-as-you-go basis.

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Salesforce Primer: Searching With SOSL Queries

The Salesforce API offers two options for searching for records within Salesforce: SOQL, (Salesforce Object Query Language and SOSL) and SOSL (Salesforce Object Search Language), which are available in Salesforce’s REST API.

How do the two differ? Well, SOQL functions as their version of the SQL SELECT statement for Salesforce Objects (sObjects) and is utilized in their /query endpoint. SOSL, on the other hand, has a more flexible syntax and can also be used as a simple keyword search. We’ll be focusing on the latter in this post.