Salesforce’s API, short for Application Programming Interface, is your gateway to seamless connectivity. It forms the bridge between different software applications, enabling them to communicate and share data effortlessly.

In the Salesforce realm, this dynamic tool empowers external systems and applications to access and manipulate Salesforce data, offering functionalities like record creation, updates, deletions, queries, and integrations with a multitude of external tools and services. Salesforce boasts versatile APIs, including the REST API and SOAP API, each offering unique methods for developers to interact with Salesforce data programmatically.

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Key Functions: Creating, Reading, Updating, and Deleting Data

At Salesforce, we’re API pioneers, adopting an API-first approach to empower you in building features on the Salesforce Platform.

Synchronous vs Asynchronous

API can either be Synchronous or Asynchronous

• Synchronous requests mean that the connection remains open while the client waits for the response.
• Asynchronous requests provide the data, close the connection, and will receive the response once the request is processed.