The document discusses how Force.com developers can build RESTful backends faster using the Force.com platform. It describes building a "Meet Up" app with REST endpoints for events, attendees, and complex queries in under an hour. Key advantages are its immediate live availability on the web, ability to handle large loads, and built-in security. While other platforms may be able to achieve the same, Force.com allows doing so more quickly through its low code development capabilities and deployment speed.

1. How Force.com Developers Do
More in Less Time ?
Are you solving technical chaos or business use cases?
Abhinav Gupta, Simplion Technologies Inc, Architect | Force.com MVP
@abhinavguptas

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3. Hello Hello – Developers check ?
Please raise hands - Which platform/language?
 Java/JEE
 .NET
 PHP
 Ruby

4. Agenda: Build RESTful backend for “Meet up” app.
• It will track meet-ups, i.e.
1. Events
2. Attendees
• App would be developed by two separate dev. teams i.e
1. force.com
2. mobile
• We (Force.com team) will develop REST web services for mobile
team.

5. Meet up app challenges !
 Has to be live ASAP, i.e. before dreamforce’12 (2 weeks remaining)
 Mobile dev. team needs RESTful web services ASAP !
 Has to be scalable, more than 80,000+ attendees coming.
 Has to be secure.

6. Time to build “Meet-up” app ? (without force.com)
 Few hours
 3-4 days
 More than a week

7. Lets build it right now, i.e. LIVE !
Using
 Force.com platform (or database.com)
 Web browser
 Chrome – REST Console extension

8. Over to web browser… !

9. What RESTful services we exposed so far ?
Endpoint : https://[NODE].salesforce.com/services/
REST Resource HTTP Supports
Methods
/data/v25.0/sobjects/[OBJECT NAME] GET, POST, All CRUD operations on any of Meet
PUT, DELETE up, Contact or Attendee objects
/data/v25.0/query/?q=[SOQL] GET Complex SQOL calls having nested
queries and aggregations.
/apexrest/meetup GET Performs complex aggregation and
returns back the results

10. Salient features of this RESTful backend:
 Its live on WWW.
 Good looking screens for CRUD on all objects.
 Exposed REST web services.
 Its ready to handle the load of 80,000+ attendees, and more.
 Security
• Force.com platform complies with best industry security standards.
• Various OAUTH flows available for mobile clients
 Doing updates and deploying is super easy and fast

11. Food for thought
Can we achieve the same in lesser time, using
 Java/JEE
 .NET
 Ruby
 Python
 PHP

12. Abhinav Gupta
Architect,
@abhinavguptas

13. Resource
 Force.com REST API : http://developer.force.com/REST
 Force.com Schema Builder: http://bit.ly/forceschema
 Database.com : http://database.com/
 Chrome Extension REST Console: http://bit.ly/restconsole