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November 3, 2016 Hannah Pate
Dell Boomi, Enterprise & System Integration

Through the use of Atom Queues and Listeners a single process can
spawn many iterations of a listening process. Each process spawned
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from a listener will execute asynchronously, independent of any
other executions. By default, an Atom Queue listener will spawn an
instance of the listening process every time a document is written to
the queue. While this will work ne in cases with a low throughput, search...
larger numbers of documents being processed will cause a large
number of executions to get kicked o .

In some cases, such as a large le being de-batched into many Categories

smaller documents, this can cause slowdown in Boomi as executions
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must be instantiated and then cleaned up after each completion.
This may also cause errors in certain endpoints. For instance, an Cloud Services
HTTP web service that can only handle a smaller number of requests
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in parallel will cause time-outs in Boomi, as many instances of the
same process wait on the rst few to nish their request. To work Custom Software
around the issue of large numbers of executions being spawned at Development
once, the listener can be throttled, batched, or both.
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One of the easiest ways to prevent massive amounts of listener
instances being spawned at once is to change the Maximum Mobile Solutions
Concurrent Executions in the Atom Queue operation settings. This
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setting limits the number of instances of this process that can be
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running at any given time. Once the limit is reached, any further
instances will wait to execute until an existing instance has nished. Portals &
By default, this value is set to zero. Any value zero or lower will allow Collaboration
in nite instances, so its good practice to make sure this number is
something above zero. Preventing the possibility of in nite instances SQL Server 2016
spawning will help keep the code maintainable a prevent unexpected
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Batching

Another way to reduce the number of listener executions, is to use a

Flow Control shape to batch the documents in the sending process. A
Flow Control shape can, among other things, group incoming
documents in batches to be sent through the process. The other
features of Flow Control arent directly relevant to this blog and need
a more in depth post, so they wont be discussed right now.

Place a Flow Control shape at some point before the Atom Queue
connector. It is not necessary for the Flow Control to be placed
before document processing, but this will ensure batched documents

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go through processing as a group. In the Flow Control con guration,

select the option to Run as Batches. Then enter how many
documents you want in each batch. In the example below, the Atom
Queue connector will send 10 documents at once to the queue. This
means one Listener process will execute with 10 documents instead
of 10 processes executing with one document each.

Batching documents should not be used as a replacement for

limiting the number of concurrent executions, but more as a way to
augment throttling by reducing the total number of spawned
executions. If a sending process with a Flow Control set up like the
example below received 100 documents, then 10 batches of
documents would be sent to the queue. This would in turn spawn 10
instances of the listener process.

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integration. Boomi AtomSphere supports real-time integration and

elastically scales to meet high-volume needs in mobile, batch (ETL)
and EDI environments. Easily accessed via a browser, it delivers an
impressive range of integration, master data management (MDM)
and platform extension capabilities.

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We hope this guide will help you in your use of AtomSphere. If you
have any questions or comments, or need assistance with any
Integrations or development questions, please contact us
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