Tuning Performance
In this chapter, we’ll cover the various methods available to tune performance when designing Salesforce applications on Lightning Platform. We’ll revisit several concepts we’ve already looked at, diving a little deeper into some scenarios to demonstrate the practical application of the techniques highlighted. By the end of this chapter, you’ll know of the various performance tuning techniques available when designing scalable solutions on the Salesforce Platform, with particular regard to data performance.
In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:
- Skinny tables and other Large Data Volume (LDV) mitigation techniques
- Query and search optimization
- Task locks
- Primary Key (PK) chunking to improve performance
- Loading massive amounts of data
We’ll begin by looking at LDV mitigation techniques and tuning our Salesforce implementations when working with massive amounts of data.