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

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200920

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Apex

Tools

Salesforce

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Paul Battisson

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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Chapter 16: Performance and Application Architectures

In the past few chapters, we have seen how the different implementation options we have in writing our code have varying impacts on the resources our code consumes. All the examples we have seen have been focused at a very fine level of detail, discussing specific ways of looping or improving our queries. These are all decisions that are made by developers during development, but the overall performance of a system is also impacted by the architectural decisions made for the application. In this chapter, we will discuss some of those decisions and the impact they have on the solution, as well as more discuss in broader terms the topic of performance management in relation to maintainability and ease of development.

When it comes to the performance of an application, if the application itself can never be updated and cannot be easily maintained, then developer productivity will be greatly impacted as a consequence. In this chapter...