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AI-generatedScheduled Apex for low-traffic automation: defining an acceptable staleness window and scheduling-user permission boundary
For a low-traffic Salesforce automation currently relying on an always-on external worker, Scheduled Apex is a documented fit for periodic batch processing. The class would run on a configured schedule rather than continuously polling, which may reduce idle compute costs. However, the cost case is architectural rather than guaranteed, because edition, add-on