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Protecting Your Data in the Cloud

Learn about salesforce.com's commitmment to earning and maintaining your trust, and discover the core security measures that our platforms use to protect your data.

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Finding the Right Salesforce Pagination Tool for Your Force.com Applications

Find the best pagination tool for your applications so that you can improve your page response time and your users' overall experience.

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Force.com Fridays

Are you new to Force.com? Join one of the June sessions of Force.com Friday, during which an expert will walk you through a core element of the platform and cover what you need to build your first app in the cloud.

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Force.com Fundamentals

Architecting Force.com Apps,
a Design Primer

Learn the key concepts and features to design and architect apps that leverage the Force.com development platform.

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The Force.com Multitenant Architecture, Under the Hood

Learn about the metadata-driven architecture of Force.com that enables fast, scalable, and secure multitenancy.

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Force.com Environments

Force.com apps are built and delivered in online environments. This article explains the various environments available, and how and when to use them.

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• Introduction to Force.com
• A Behind the Scenes Look at the Force.com Platform
• Advanced Application Lifecycle Management on Force.com
• Release Management for Large Organizations
• Performance Monitoring and Testing the Salesforce Cloud

Force.com Integration Design

Integrating with the Force.com Platform

There are many ways to integrate with the Force.com platform, including the SOAP API, outbound messages, email, and HTTP/REST calls.

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Choosing the Right Integration Strategy

Practical advice for choosing the best integration approach for your Force.com implementation.

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Integration Patterns and Practices

Learn all about common Salesforce integration strategies in the form of patterns. Each pattern describes the design and approach for a particular scenario.

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• Introduction to Force.com Canvas Apps
• Build Your First Real-time App with the Streaming API
• Building Java Apps on Heroku and Force.com

Force.com App Logic Design

Apex as a Second Language

Learn the core concepts behind the Apex programming language, and compare it with some other programming languages, such as Java or .NET.

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Asynchronous Processing in Force.com

Learn how underlying concepts of Salesforce mechanisms and implementation that affect asynchronous processing in non-obvious ways, and techniques to design better asynchronous processes on the platform.

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Performance Tuning for Visualforce and Apex

Learn best practices and debugging techniques for tuning performance of your Apex and Visualforce code.

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Learn how to write efficient and selective queries to ensure that your applications perform and scale as your business grows.

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• Real Programmers Use Apex
• Apex Design Patterns
• Apex Nirvana - Embracing Governor Limits
• Advanced Asynchronous Apex

Force.com User Interface Design

Introduction to Visualforce

Learn about Visualforce, the component-based UI framework that lets you build attractive, dynamic, reusable user interfaces.

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Visualforce Performance: Best Practices

Learn how to locate and test performance problems, and design for optimal performance.

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7 Habits of Highly Efficient Visualforce Pages

Learn the seven principles every Visualforce architect and developer should know, practice, and preach.

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Learn how to choose the best Salesforce pagination tool for your applications so that you can improve your page response time and your users' overall experience.

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• JavaScript Patterns and Practices from the Salesforce Experts

Force.com Data Management Design

An Introduction to the Force.com Database

Learn more about Force.com's database technology, determining where your data is stored, and how it is distributed across your applications and backends.

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Database Query & Search Optimization Fields Cheat Sheet

When designing SOQL and SOSL, keep in mind the following fields for better database performance and response times.

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Best Practices for Deployments with Large Data Volumes

Explore underlying concepts and best practices for supporting and improving the performance of Force.com implementations with large data volumes.

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Learn how to use representative test data to gauge the usability and performance of any database-driven app—before you move your data to production.

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Learn how to design and configure data structures, and plan a deployment process, to significantly reduce deployment times and achieve operational efficiency.

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Learn how to archive historical Salesforce records to Heroku Postgres and integrate a remote app's UI and user authentication into Salesforce with Force.com Canvas.

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• Large Data Volumes on Force.com
• Architecting Multi-Org Solutions
• Building an Enterprise MDM Strategy
• How Salesforce.com Uses Hadoop
• How Salesforce.com Manages Data Protection

Force.com Security Design

Protecting Your Data in the Cloud

An overview of salesforce.com's commitmment to earning and maintaining your trust, the core security measures that our platforms use to protect your data, and the built-in features that you can use to build your own secure applications.

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A Guide to Sharing Architecture

A review of data accessibility components, sample sharing model use cases, real customer sharing solutions, and troubleshooting guidelines.

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Record-Level Access: Under the Hood

A description of the database architecture Salesforce uses to provide fast and secure record access, and an explanation of why changing record access configurations impacts performance.

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Learn how to manage group maintenance and sharing performance with the built-in sharing behaviors that support Salesforce applications.

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A guide for finding the most appropriate territory management solution to meet your organization's business needs.

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• Authentication with OAuth and Connected Apps
• Digging Deeper into Desktop and Mobile App Security
• Managing the Role Hierarchy at Enterprise Scale

Force.com Mobile App Design

Understanding Native, Hybrid and Web Mobile Architectures

Mobile apps are no longer an option—they're an imperative. Learn about the three different options for building enterprise mobile apps: native, HTML5, and hybrid apps.

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Creating and Using Visualforce Mobile Components

Learn how to use Mobile Components for Visualforce to make Salesforce data accessible from your mobile device through Visualforce pages. Explore the basic design of one of these Mobile Components, which will arm you with the knowledge to create any component to fill your needs.

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Security Best Practices for Mobile Development

Explore the security features available on both iOS and Android, learn how app data can be compromised, and receive best practices for the development of secure enterprise apps on both platforms.

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• Introduction to the Salesforce Mobile SDK for Android
• Introduction to the Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS
• Developing Hybrid Apps with the Salesforce Mobile SDK

Force.com App Distribution Design

Building for the AppExchange

The AppExchange is a great way to sell your creations directly to salesforce.com customers. See you how to develop, publish, promote and sell to this fast growing and highly engaged market.

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Architecting a Commercial Force.com Application

If you're going to build a commercial application, then there are additional considerations to be aware of, in particular those of packaging, licensing and distribution. This article will help you identify the most common architectural pieces to consider before development.

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Architectural Considerations for Group and Professional Editions

If you plan to sell your app to existing Salesforce customers, it’s important to understand the differences between editions of Force.com because editions can affect the design of your app. Learn more.

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