This document discusses FinancialForce's new Data Pipeline feature, which allows developers to process large amounts of data in parallel using Apache Pig scripts. Key points include:
- Data Pipeline uses Pig Latin scripts to run Extract-Transform-Load processes on large datasets asynchronously and in parallel to improve performance.
- It enables processing data faster than other asynchronous Apex options while avoiding governor limits.
- Demo use cases show extracting specific fields from invoices and joining data from multiple objects.
- FinancialForce also discussed their new "Big Objects" that allow storing very large amounts of data separately from standard objects to avoid storage limits.