108: Apex Development with Adrian Larson

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adrian Larson is a Salesforce developer over at Counsel. Today we talk with him about his insights into Apex development.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout our conversation, we also get into some of Adrian’s earliest experiences including working with Python and what the transition from there to Java was like. We have a great discussion about StackExchange and optimizations as well. Tune in and learn from Adrian’s years and depth of experience.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What Adrian’s current role looks like.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How he got involved in StackExchange.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What constitutes a good answer on StackExchange.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Adrian became a moderator for Salesforce.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What a fluent pattern is and what it can help with.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Adrian and his team use micro-optimizations.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What fluent query and fluent syntax mean.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Adrian utilizes dependency injection for performance increase.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why he works out an API first and then writes rigorous tests for it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The benefits of having a trigger handler class.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ul> <li sty