Salesforce Summer ’22 Highlights

Salesforce Summer ’22 is almost here! It is a fairly generous update, and here are some of my highlights:

Frontend Development

Effective Page Time Metrics — LINK

More details around how real users are experiencing page load times of your Lightning Pages

Load Large Datatables Faster with Virtual Rendering — LINK

This is a great feature that reduces the need for coding and customization of datatables. You can experience smooth scrolling when your table has more than 200 records.

Improved Javascript Debugging — LINK

Improvements to navigating code debugging in the Google Chrome browser.

Apex Development

Secure Apex Code with User Mode Database Operations (Beta) — LINK

Get more granular control of database operations and add ‘WITH USER_MODE’ to your SOQL statement to avoid executing as System

Write Queries with GraphQL API (Beta) — LINK

GraphQL is a powerful open source query language, and now available (in beta) with Salesforce.

Develop Event-Driven Apps with Pub/Sub API (Generally Available) — LINK

Use the new Pub/Sub API to access Platform Events and CDC with the gRPC protocol.

Security

Secure Cross-Cloud Integrations with Private Connect Across the Globe — LINK

You can now establish secure private connections to (some) Amazon AWS data centers directly from Salesforce. Would be awesome to include Microsoft Azure and Google GCP in this as well.

Event Monitoring: Track API Usage for API Versions 31–49 — LINK

Salesforce is slowly deprecating and removing support from older API versions. This new event will make it easier to track requests to these older API’s and update them