Force.com Platform Architecture Overview
Force.com’s optimized metadata-driven architecture delivers extraordinary performance, scalability, and customization for on-demand, multitenant applications (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Force.com’s metadata-driven architecture optimally generates virtual application components at runtime.
In Force.com, everything exposed to developers and application users is internally represented as metadata. Forms, reports, work flows, user access privileges, tenant-specific customizations and business logic, even the definitions of underlying data tables and indexes, are all abstract constructs that exist merely as metadata ...
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