Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 14 · Performance and throughput
Parallel processing, and its cost
Lesson 139 of 175 · 2 min
Running branches concurrently, the limits that apply, and THE TARGET SYSTEM THAT THROTTLES YOU FOR DOING IT. Parallelism is the obvious lever when a flow is too slow and it is the one most often pulled without measuring. Split the work, run several branches at once, finish in a fraction of the time. Sometimes that is exactly what happens. OFTEN IT IS NOT, BECAUSE THE BOTTLENECK MOVES RATHER THAN DISAPPEARING. Lesson 1's point: if the time is in the target system, running ten branches means the target is now receiving ten times the traffic. A system that answered in 300ms under one caller may answer in 3 seconds under ten, and the flow finishes in the same wall-clock time while consuming ten times the resource. AND SOME TARGETS RESPOND BY THROTTLING YOU, WHICH IS THE FAILURE IN THE TITLE. An API with a rate limit answers 429 once you cross…
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