Mastering Apex Programming Book Review
Summary
Here’s a deep dive into what makes 'Mastering Apex Programming' stand out for Salesforce Apex learners. The book balances core Apex concepts with best practices, advanced topics like platform events, performance tuning, and anti-patterns such as suicidal scheduling. It’s perfect for developers who want to go beyond basic coding and understand why certain practices matter in real platform scenarios. After exploring this, teams can apply more effective Apex coding patterns and optimize their scheduling and batch processes.
Takeaways
- Focus on learning Apex best practices beyond just syntax.
- Understand and avoid scheduling anti-patterns like suicidal scheduling.
- Combine declarative and programmatic approaches carefully.
- Study platform events and performance tuning to improve Apex code.
- Use testing and exception handling to build reliable Apex code.
So what is the best book for learning Salesforce? Now, this is more tricky than it sounds. I do try to buy every Salesforce book I can find to support the community and learn salesforce myself (you can never know it all!) but the books to learn Salesforce can be a bit of a mixed bag. But for me, I generally struggle with Salesforce books. For a couple of reasons: They date quickly; Fortunately or Unfortunately Salesforce releases three times a year, and the time it takes to write the book may mean that it’s almost out of date the moment it’s published which can result learning Salesforce from a book hard. The Copiers; The ones that just follow or copy the Salesforce documentation or rinse and repeat other content. I feel this seems pointless to learn from a book, especially for a tech book, your better off just looking up the Salesforce documentation or google the latest information.