Are you a new Force.com developer? About to write your first Apex trigger or class? Or already developed some Apex just to run into a governor limit? Want to learn more about governors in Apex?

If so, check out this new technical article that explains what governors are, why they exist, and how they are calculated. The article is intended for architects and developers writing Apex code on the Force.com platform. Here is a brief snippet from the Abstract:

This is where Apex governor limits come in. Governor limits are runtime limits enforced by the Apex runtime engine to ensure that code does not misbehave. This article presents an overview of Apex Code governor limits, why they are important, and how to design scalable, efficient Apex code.

If interested in reading the entire article, it can be found here.