It is important to consider your customer's storage needs and use cases with regard to their data creation and consumption patterns early in the application design phase. This ensures that your object schema is the most optimal one with respect to large data volumes, data migration processes (inbound and outbound), and storage cost. In this chapter, we will extend the Custom Objects in the FormulaForce application as we explore how the platform stores and manages data. We will also explore the difference between your application's operational data, configuration data, and the benefits of using Custom Metadata Types for configuration management and deployment.
You will gain a good understanding of the types of storage provided and how the costs associated with each are calculated. It is also important to understand the options that are available...
