Chapter 7: Working with Large Volumes of Data

In this chapter, we will discuss working with big data in Salesforce. Salesforce has been in use by organizations for a long time, and more and more organizations have moved from the implementation and stabilization phase to a more mature growth stage where the focus is on leveraging features introduced during the implementation phase to increase revenues and reduce costs. Business growth means data is growing as well and it needs to be managed properly to prevent any disruption to the business.

We will take a brief dip into different types of databases and then dive right into Large Data Volumes (LDVs), a topic that piques my interest because of the unique challenges associated with it. We will look at what defines an LDV scenario and also discuss how we can avoid these scenarios when possible. And when we do find ourselves working with LDVs, we'll see some of the considerations to take into account to be successful along with...