017: Spring '20 Apex with Chris Peterson

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Peterson, Director of Product Management for Apex at Salesforce, joins us this week to discuss Spring ‘20 Apex. Chris’s day-to-day is often complex; it includes approving increases in Apex limits, sometimes putting out developmental “fires,” and overseeing Apex product development. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today’s episode, we highlight some key elements about Spring ‘20 Apex, including Apex Finalizers.  We also discuss some of the security enhancements coming, including the addition of WITH_SECURITY_ENFORCED for SOQL and an Apex method called stripInaccessible. Join us for an informational and interesting conversation about some of the new features coming to Apex in Spring ‘20. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Highlights:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Chris believes it’s important to take action quickly </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How important Hammer is to the ongoing stability and development process of Apex</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apex Finalizer - what it is and how developers can use it</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">One private API Chris added: logging </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Apex Finalizer</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">pilot phase</span></em></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A security enhancement for SOQL </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The stripInaccessible() security feature</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a “Swiss Army Knife” method Chris always wished existed</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apex Describe performance issues addressed</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Resources:</s