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# 05 · Scheduled paths and platform events
- URL: https://www.namastesalesforce.com/courses/flow-mastery/scheduled-paths-and-platform-events/
- Published: 2025-09-21T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-21T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: The async toolbox: run minutes later, run nightly, or hand off to another system entirely — without a line of Apex.
- Author: Swarnil Singhai
- Tags: Flow Builder Mastery, #lesson, #duration-30m, #lesson-layout-right, #Import 2026-09-03 18:03

The async toolbox: run minutes later, run nightly, or hand off to another system entirely — without a line of Apex.

## Scheduled paths are the gentle async

'Ten minutes after the record meets conditions' covers a surprising share of async needs — reminders, escalations, SLA checks — with none of the ceremony.

## Platform events cross the boundary

Publish an event and anything can subscribe: another flow, Apex, or an external system on CometD. It is the loose coupling your integrations wanted all along.

## Practice in your org

- Open your Developer Edition org and follow along step by step
- Change one thing at a time and note what happens
- When something breaks, read the error before searching for it