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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

When to use Queueable Apex

There are three primary use cases for Queueable Apex, which we will discuss in this section, however, you may notice that some of them overlap with use cases we previously discussed for future methods and Batch Apex. This is because there is typically no one right answer for how you should look to architect and develop a solution—although there are often many wrong ways of doing things. When working on some of these overlapping use cases, the key question to consider is whether you wish to chain the asynchronous process you are building. If the answer is yes, then you are almost always going to get the best results using a Queueable Apex implementation. Let's now look at some common use cases in the following sections.

Extensive or complex processes

The first key use case is for extensive or complex database processes. What do I mean by this? As we know, Salesforce has a series of governor limits that are in place to ensure that resources...

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