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Anshul Verma
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Anshul Verma has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2006. Prior to that, he has done extensive development using MS technologies on web, desktop, and mobile applications. He possesses a tremendous understanding of enterprise-scale systems and has worked in designing intricate systems with high scalability, performance, and robustness. He has been a Dreamforce speaker and is a regular contributor to Stack Exchange and other developer communities. He has four Salesforce certifications and is currently working as a project manager and technical architect where he is responsible for managing customer success and delivering high-quality solutions to his clients. He has conducted various training sessions in his current organization and trained over 50 new hires. He is very popular with his training batches and can be often found sharing his knowledge with his team and peers. He owns and maintains his blog (http://mightycoder.blogspot.com/), and you can follow him on Twitter at @toanshulverma.
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Jitendra Zaa has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2008. He has extensively worked on Java and .NET-based enterprise applications. He also has experience in working with multiple JavaScript libraries, web frameworks, ETL tools, and databases. He is an expert in designing and implementing integrations of Salesforce with external systems. He is a regular speaker at the worlds biggest developer event, Dreamforce, mostly in developer track. Because of his contributions to the Salesforce community, he has also been awarded the Salesforce MVP title. He has more than eight Salesforce certifications and works as a Salesforce technical architect. He owns one of the most viewed Salesforce developer blogs (http://www.JitendraZaa.com), formerly, http://Shivasoft.in. You can follow him on Twitter at @JitendraZaa.
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The iterator pattern


Developers of Universal Call Center are given the task of displaying a customer banner on the service cloud. This banner should display the account name and ticker symbol of a customer. This functionality needs to be reusable so the team decides to use a newly launched Salesforce lightning platform to create a banner component. An expected requirement is to display one account at a time. Team discussed an approach to retrieve all the required accounts and display them in a sequence. However, as this would result in lots of records being stored in the browser memory, this solution is not memory-efficient. So, the team identifies that they need a solution wherein they can retrieve one account at a time.

The iterator pattern  is the right fit for this use case. It allows sequential iteration of a collection of records.

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The iterator pattern provides a way to access the elements in a collection sequentially without exposing its underlying data structure. The iterator...

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Anshul Verma

Anshul Verma has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2006. Prior to that, he has done extensive development using MS technologies on web, desktop, and mobile applications. He possesses a tremendous understanding of enterprise-scale systems and has worked in designing intricate systems with high scalability, performance, and robustness. He has been a Dreamforce speaker and is a regular contributor to Stack Exchange and other developer communities. He has four Salesforce certifications and is currently working as a project manager and technical architect where he is responsible for managing customer success and delivering high-quality solutions to his clients. He has conducted various training sessions in his current organization and trained over 50 new hires. He is very popular with his training batches and can be often found sharing his knowledge with his team and peers. He owns and maintains his blog (http://mightycoder.blogspot.com/), and you can follow him on Twitter at @toanshulverma.
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Jitendra Zaa

Jitendra Zaa has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2008. He has extensively worked on Java and .NET-based enterprise applications. He also has experience in working with multiple JavaScript libraries, web frameworks, ETL tools, and databases. He is an expert in designing and implementing integrations of Salesforce with external systems. He is a regular speaker at the worlds biggest developer event, Dreamforce, mostly in developer track. Because of his contributions to the Salesforce community, he has also been awarded the Salesforce MVP title. He has more than eight Salesforce certifications and works as a Salesforce technical architect. He owns one of the most viewed Salesforce developer blogs (http://www.JitendraZaa.com), formerly, http://Shivasoft.in. You can follow him on Twitter at @JitendraZaa.
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