Salesforce Platform performance

Over time, data in your organization will grow. If this growing data is not managed properly, it can cause issues, including performance issues, storage limits, and low adaption of the system. One of the best ways to manage data over the long run is to incorporate data archiving and data management practices as part of every new implementation. When this is not done, data archiving and stewardship activities become afterthoughts and require more work to implement. This is regardless of factors including having sufficient storage for the next few years, good performance, a lack of performance-related complaints from customers, or thinking that you will never hit the limits.

Good architecture means thinking ahead about performance and minimizing, where it makes sense, the use of available resources. In this section, we will review why performance matters and some of the more common reasons that cause performance issues. We will also be reviewing performance...