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The recent rapid development of the Salesforce platform has induced an expansion of no-code solutions to make automation available for less technical audience. This study examines similarities and differences between Apex programming and one of the no-code solutions on the Salesforce platform, Flow Builder. The research compares the implementation of the same applications using Apex language and Flow Builder in terms of operating time to fulfil requirements (first part) and execution time of both applications (second part). The applications were classified into two categories regarding the complexity of the solution, namely simple and intermediate, so that the research could thoroughly verify the impact of the amount of code and the simplification of programming concepts Flow Builder allows for. In the first part of the research, the majority of the developers who took part in the research managed to implement the simple application much quicker using Apex than Flow Builder. The intermediate application needed much more Apex code and made use of concepts like bulkification of records, which are automated in Flow Builder, so it was much easier to develop the second application in Flow Builder than Apex. In the second part of the research, execution times of the applications using Apex and Flow Builder were compared, and the findings show the impact of Flow Builder “behind the scenes” automation, which was the root cause of its more complex solutions slowdown.
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