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Business Basics

Before any software, there is a business: people solving a problem for money. This section starts at zero what a company sells, who its customers are, how money moves through it, and why it eventually pays for software. No jargon, no assumed knowledge. Everything in the rest of the curriculum stands on these thirteen lessons.

05 · Recursion control
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05 · Recursion control

Your after-update updates the record, which fires your after-update. Breaking the loop without breaking legitimate re-entry.

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04 · Bulkification: 200 records or bust
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04 · Bulkification: 200 records or bust

Triggers receive up to 200 records at once. Every query and DML statement inside a loop is a countdown to 'Too many SOQL queries: 101'.

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03 · The handler pattern
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03 · The handler pattern

One method per event, a static bypass flag, and constructor-free classes your tests will thank you for.

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02 · One trigger per object
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02 · One trigger per object

Two triggers on one object run in an order Salesforce refuses to promise. The fix is a rule, not a framework.

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Business Basics
Business Basics

Business Basics

A business solves a problem for money. Learn what that really means, how it worked before computers, and why the definition has never changed.

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