During development, it’s easy to fall into the habit of running a query whenever you need data. While each one may seem harmless, they can quickly add up! Recursion, weak coding patterns, or poorly designed service layers can lead to query limit exceptions and performance issues.

A more effective approach is to reduce unnecessary queries by leveraging caching. Salesforce provides robust, multi-layered caching that you can incorporate into your solutions to improve performance and reliability.
So before you add that next query, let’s learn about some scenarios where you already have access to the data you need.