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Dive Deep into Advanced Apex Best Practices
Master trigger recursions, asynchronous patterns, concurrency scaling, exception logging, and other advanced Apex best practices for building enterprise apps.
Important: This session is first come, first seated. You do not have a reserved seat.

, Product Management Director, Apex, Salesforce

, Principal Developer Advocate, Salesforce

Role: Developer
Product: Agentforce 360 Platform
Session Level: Advanced
Session Type: Breakout
  • Tuesday, Sep 171:45 PM - 2:30 PM PDT
    (8:45 PM - 9:30 PM GMT)
    Moscone West, L3, Room 3014
  • Wednesday, Sep 1811:00 AM - 11:45 AM PDT
    (6:00 PM - 6:45 PM GMT)
    Metreon AMC, L3, Theater 15
Session Summary by Einstein: The Salesforce conference session provided a comprehensive deep dive into advanced Apex best practices, with a focus on asynchronous Apex design, trigger management, concurrency, record locking, and handling large data volumes. Key insights included strategies for batch Apex jobs, leveraging queueable Apex to process jobs efficiently, and the use of platform events for flexible batch sizes and built-in retry mechanisms. The session highlighted the importance of efficient code execution, the utility of Salesforce Data Cloud for handling large data volumes, and tools like Event Monitoring and Scale Center for debugging and performance analysis.
Key Takeaways by Einstein:

• Developers learned about the significance of designing asynchronous APEX with considerations for timing, SLAs, and efficient job processing to avoid performance bottlenecks.

• The session underscored the value of using Salesforce Data Cloud to manage large data volumes and the necessity of implementing retry logic and state management for triggers to prevent regression and data inconsistencies.

• Attendees were introduced to debugging tools such as APEX Replay Debugger and the importance of monitoring tools like Event Monitoring and Scale Center for identifying and resolving unhandled exceptions and performance issues.

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