Chapter 11. Asynchronous Processing and Big Data Volumes

This chapter covers two important aspects of developing an enterprise-level application on the Force.com platform. While asynchronous processing and Big Data volumes are not necessarily linked, the greater governor limits and processing power of the platform are mostly to be found in the async processing mode. However, making sure that your interactive user experience is still responsive when querying large volumes of data is also very important.

In this chapter, we will first review how to ensure SOQL queries are as performant as possible by understanding how to profile queries and make use of the standard and custom indexes. This will benefit both interactive and batch (or async) processes ...

Get Force.com Enterprise Architecture - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.