What is bulkify a code in Salesforce Apex?

The term bulkifying Apex code refers to the concept of making sure the code properly handles more than one record at a time. When a batch of records initiate Apex, a single instance of that Apex code is executed, but it needs to handle all of the records in that given batch. For example, a trigger could be invoked by an Force.com Web Services API call that inserted a batch of records. Or a custom Apex Web Service. So if a batch of records invokes the the same Apex code, all of those records need to be processed as a bulk, in order to write scalable code and avoid hitting governor limits.

The benefit of bulkifying your code is that bulkified code can process large numbers of records efficiently and run within governor limits on the Lightning Platform. These governor limits are in place to ensure that runaway code doesn’t monopolize resources on the multitenant platform.

The term bulkifying Apex code refers to the concept of making sure the code properly handles more than one record at a time. When a batch of records initiate Apex, a single instance of that Apex code is executed, but it needs to handle all of the records in that given batch.

Apex triggers are optimized to operate in bulk. We recommend using bulk design patterns for processing records in triggers