Governor limits are Salesforce's hard caps on resource usage per transaction (e.g., 100 SOQL queries, 150 DML statements, 6MB heap, 10s CPU time for synchronous Apex). They exist because Salesforce is multi-tenant — limits prevent any one customer from monopolizing shared resources.
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Salesforce Governor Limits Cheat Sheet (2026 Edition)
The governor limits that matter in 2026 — per-transaction, per-24-hour, and how to design around each one in Apex and Flow.
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Flow Bulkification: Patterns That Survive Data Loads
Concrete bulkification patterns for Salesforce flows that prevent governor limit errors under data loads and trigger chains.