Summary

We started the chapter by discussing the importance of why we should be concerned with performance in the first place. I hope that this will give you food for thought regarding why it’s a bad idea to start developing a solution in Salesforce without properly thinking through design and architectural considerations. The Salesforce Platform is powerful and allows customers to build applications that shorten the software development life cycle time, but that strength turns into a weakness when solutions are haphazardly put together.

Our discussion of the reasons why performance issues happen in the first place is hopefully a checklist that you can use to ensure that the applications or integrations you are building don’t have those problems. A challenge with performance issues is that they show up over time, but knowing why they happen will let you avoid most of them in the first place.

We extensively discussed a variety of tools that are available to us for...