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Utilize Platform Events to Accelerate Your Apex Code
Platform events transform your user experience, reduce wait times, and improve user satisfaction. Discover implementation best practices, common challenges, and possible workarounds.
Important: This session is first come, first seated. You do not have a reserved seat.

, Senior Developer, Charket

, Project Manager, Charket

Role: Architect, Developer
Product: Agentforce 360 Platform
Topic: Integration
Session Level: Intermediate
Session Type: Breakout
  • Thursday, Sep 192:00 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
    (9:00 PM - 9:45 PM GMT)
    Moscone West, L3, Room 3020
Session Summary by Einstein: The session provided a comprehensive understanding of Salesforce's platform event-driven architecture, emphasizing how it fosters real-time system communication and reduces integration complexity through decoupled publisher and subscriber models. Through various real-world scenarios, the presenters demonstrated how platform events can handle high volumes of data, manage concurrency, and overcome Salesforce governor limits, all while ensuring efficient data processing. By showcasing the use of Apex code in publishing and subscribing to events, they offered insights into asynchronous processing, auto-batching, and transaction separation, detailing the benefits of platform events over traditional methods in handling complex hierarchical data updates and concurrency issues.
Key Takeaways by Einstein:

• Platform events allow for efficient real-time communication within Salesforce, reducing the need for point-to-point integrations and thus simplifying the architecture.

• The use of platform events can significantly mitigate common development challenges such as managing concurrency, reducing lock row issues, and handling large volumes of data without hitting Salesforce governor limits.

• By providing examples of practical implementations, the session illustrated how platform events can optimize processes like campaign member creation and QR code scan tracking, enhancing performance and scalability.

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