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Mastering Apex Programming

You're reading from   Mastering Apex Programming A Salesforce developer's guide to learn advanced techniques and programming best practices for building robust and scalable enterprise-grade applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638352
Length 394 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

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
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. Section 3: Integrations
14. Chapter 11: Integrating with Salesforce 15. Chapter 12: Using Platform Events 16. Chapter 13: Apex and Flow 17. Chapter 14: Apex REST and Custom Web Services 18. Chapter 15: Outbound Integrations – REST 19. Chapter 16: Outbound Integrations – SOAP 20. Chapter 17: DataWeave in Apex 21. Section 4: Apex Performance
22. Chapter 18: Performance and the Salesforce Governor Limits 23. Chapter 19: Performance Profiling 24. Chapter 20: Improving Apex Performance 25. Chapter 21: Performance and Application Architectures 26. Index 27. Other Books You May Enjoy

When to use Queueable Apex

There are three primary use cases for Queueable Apex, all of which we will discuss in this section. However, you may notice that some of them overlap with the use cases we previously discussed for future methods and Batch Apex. This is because there is typically no one right answer for how you should look to architect and develop a solution – although there are often many wrong ways of doing things. When working on some of these overlapping use cases, the key question to consider is whether you wish to chain the asynchronous process you are building. If the answer is yes, then you are almost always going to get the best results using a Queueable Apex implementation. We’ll look at some common use cases in the following sections.

Extensive or complex processes

The first key use case is for extensive or complex database processes. What do I mean by this? As we know, Salesforce has a series of governor limits that are in place to ensure that...

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