MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers: A practitioner's guide to deploying MuleSoft APIs and integrations for Salesforce enterprise solutions
Publication
Packt Publishing
MuleSoft for Salesforce Developers will help you build state-of-the-art enterprise solutions with flexible and scalable integration capabilities using MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform and Anypoint Studio. If you're a Salesforce developer looking to get started with this useful tool, look no further. This book will get you up to speed in no time, leveling up your integration developer skills.
This essential guide will first introduce you to the fundamentals of MuleSoft and API-led connectivity, before walking you through the API life cycle and the Anypoint Studio IDE. Once you have the IDE set up, you'll be ready to create Mule applications. You'll look at the core components of MuleSoft and Anypoint Platform, and before long you'll know how to build, transform, secure, test, and deploy applications using the wide range of components available to you. Finally, you'll learn about using connectors to integrate MuleSoft with Salesforce and to fulfill a number of use cases, which will be covered in depth, along with interview and certification tips.
By the end of this book, you will be confident building MuleSoft integrations at an enterprise scale and be able to gain the fundamental MuleSoft certification MCD.
About the Author
Arul Christhuraj Alphonse works as a senior integration architect at Cognizant. He previously worked at Akmin Technologies, Quinnox, IBM, and TCS. He has over 18 years of experience in the integration and API domain and has designed over 1,000 integrations. His educational qualifications include Master of Computer Applications and Master of Business Administration degrees, and his professional qualifications include MuleSoft Mentor, MuleSoft Certified Integration Architect, MuleSoft Certified Platform Architect, MuleSoft Certified Developer Level 1, and SoftwareAG webMethods Certified Professional. He is from Tamil Nadu, India, and currently lives in Singapore. He shares his knowledge through Udemy and the Tech Lightning YouTube channel.
Alexandra Martinez is a developer advocate at MuleSoft, creating technical content to enable developers and architects to get started with MuleSofts products. Before this, Alex worked as a MuleSoft developer and was part of the MuleSoft community as an Ambassadress and meetup leader for the Toronto, Online Spanish, and Women Who Mule chapters. Alex has 10+ years of experience in technology and has developed software in other languages, such as Java, Python, and PHP. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Alexandras MuleSoft career was key to moving to a different country, and she currently lives in Niagara Falls, Canada. Alex volunteers at organizations such as Women Who Code and Olascoaga MX to help close the gender gap in STEM careers.
Akshata Sawant is a developer advocate at MuleSoft. Shes been evangelizing MuleSoft through her blogs, videos, and training sessions. She has around five years of experience as a MuleSoft developer. Apart from this, she's also a MuleSoft Certified Developer and an architect. Akshata has been an active member of the MuleSoft community and is also a former MuleSoft Ambassadress and a meetup leader for the London, Mumbai, and Manchester regions. Her roots go back to Mumbai but shes currently living her London dream. Shes been a global speaker and mentors women in the integration ecosystem.
- Understand how to use MuleSoft to achieve API-led connectivity
- Design and create documentation for your API
- Develop Mule applications and run them in Anypoint Studio
- Monitor your applications from Anypoint Platform
- Transform your data using DataWeave
- Use the CI/CD and Mule Maven plugins
- Run tests using MUnit and generate a code coverage report
- Use best practices to maintain coding standards
This book is for Salesforce developers who want to get started with MuleSoft. Salesforce architects will also find the concepts covered in the book useful in designing Salesforce solutions. Prior knowledge of any programming language and some basic integration concepts will be helpful, alongside basic familiarity with Salesforce development and experience with at least one Salesforce API including the SOAP API, REST API, Bulk API, or Streaming API.
- Introduction to MuleSoft
- Design your API
- Exploring Anypoint Studio
- Core Components
- All About Anypoint Platform
- LearningTransform with Dataweave
- Transform with DataWeave
- Build your Mule Application
- Deploy your application
- Secure your API
- Testing your application
- MuleSoft integration with Salesforce
- MuleSoft connectors and Use cases
- MuleSoft Best practices, Tip and Tricks
- Mulesoft Certification and Interview Tips
