Summary

In this chapter, we dived into the details of the Salesforce development life cycle and deployment domain. We learned what is expected from a CTA to cover and at what level of detail. We discussed some key principles, such as DevOps, CI/CD, multi-layered development environments, and SCM. Then, we understood their importance and their impact on the development and release cycle.

As you might have already noticed, the scope of this domain is limited. The key challenge with such types of domains is in their depth of knowledge, understanding why some best practices are there, and how to implement them.

Then, we tackled a mini hypothetical scenario that focused on development life cycle and deployment, and we solutioned it together and created some catchy presentation pitches. We developed a development and release diagram that could be easily reused for other scenarios (with minor changes), and we learned how to present this to an audience to capture their attention and...