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Mastering Apex Programming

You're reading from   Mastering Apex Programming A developer's guide to learning advanced techniques and best practices for building robust Salesforce applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800200920
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Triggers, Testing, and Security
2. Chapter 1: Common Apex Mistakes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Debugging Apex 4. Chapter 3: Triggers and Managing Trigger Execution 5. Chapter 4: Exceptions and Exception Handling 6. Chapter 5: Testing Apex Code 7. Chapter 6: Secure Apex Programming 8. Section 2 – Asynchronous Apex and Apex REST
9. Chapter 7: Utilizing Future Methods 10. Chapter 8: Working with Batch Apex 11. Chapter 9: Working with Queueable Apex 12. Chapter 10: Scheduling Apex Jobs 13. Chapter 11: Using Platform Events 14. Chapter 12: Apex REST and Custom Web Services 15. Section 3 – Apex Performance
16. Chapter 13: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits 17. Chapter 14: Performance Profiling 18. Chapter 15: Improving Apex Performance 19. Chapter 16: Performance and Application Architectures 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is Queueable Apex?

Queueable Apex was first introduced in the Winter '15 Salesforce release, that was some time around the end of 2014. It was delivered as a response to the growing use of both Batch Apex and future methods and developers finding use cases where neither was an ideal solution. This led to the development of Queueable Apex. Queueable Apex allows a developer to submit a job for processing and then at the end of that job, start another job, chaining multiple jobs together, something like this:

Figure 9.1 – Jobs are chained together with each job

From Figure 9.1, we see that each chained job is invoking another job, in the process, if needed until the full process is complete. Perhaps the best way to understand Queueable Apex is to understand the original reason it was designed. In his detailed blog post (https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/engineering/2014/10/new-apex-queueable-interface.html), Josh Kaplan from the Salesforce...

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