Apex is the core language for customizing business logic on the Salesforce Platform and for integrating with third-party systems. Whenever you need to expose platform data or custom logic to an external system, one of your options is to create a custom Apex REST endpoint. In this post, we’ll discuss the use cases for implementing custom Apex REST endpoints, and we’ll share tips … [Read more...] about Writing Apex REST Services (and When Not To)
Customize Your Apps with Styling Hooks
Styling hooks went GA with the Spring ’22 release. This feature opens the door to the customization of Lightning base components and much more. With styling hooks, you can easily change the appearance of a standard user interface by modifying a few lines of CSS: We won’t debate tastes and colors in this post, but we’ll cover what CSS custom properties and styling hooks are … [Read more...] about Customize Your Apps with Styling Hooks
Reduce File Storage Consumption with Salesforce Functions and Amazon S3
Salesforce is a multi-tenant platform that serves multiple customers on the same hardware. With this type of architecture, the Salesforce Platform imposes limits to enforce an even distribution of resources across all tenants. Such limits include API consumption, Apex governor limits, and others. Most of the developer-related limits are described in the Salesforce Developer … [Read more...] about Reduce File Storage Consumption with Salesforce Functions and Amazon S3