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Scenarios to use Platform Events
In addition to the points in other answers, Platform Events can be used to perform what is effectively asynchronous processing outside the initiating transaction in a sequential (or narrowly ...
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Scenarios to use Platform Events
Event-driven architecture tends to be a more efficient method of communicating between systems. This is because the subscribers don't have to continually check for updates (polling), publishers don't ...
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In addition to the other comments, Platform Events are an ideal way to change the running user.
Using the metadata type PlatformEventSubscriberConfig you can define the running user to be (typically) ...
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Scenarios to use Platform Events
Are there any scenarios where platform events are the only option to
choose from?
As far as I know there isn't any. Mainly because platform events are based on Streaming API which is existing already ...
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Take the scenario where Salesforce needs to publish an event when a certain thing happens.
Salesforce announces - as the Publisher in the Pub-Sub system - that something happened, and this event ...
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