Microsoft professionals put Power Automate to work, boosting runtime with concurrency controls, resolving Event Hubs errors, conducting social media monitoring, and more.

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Boosting runtime with concurrency controls

Most Power Automate users are familiar with the widely used Apply Each control, which helps with processing lists of items. However, when there's a long list things can get problematic with items being very slow to process, running only one at a time. To overcome this, Satyvir Jasra, writing on the Magnetism Solutions Blog, recommends Concurrency Control. Users can turn the control on through the settings cog and set a maximum of 50 for degree of parallelism.

Much like a regular sequential for loop, Power Automate will display items that failed to run after it processes the entire batch. In a startling contrast, Jasra showed a regular runtime for multiple items which took over four minutes to complete, compared to only 15 seconds with Concurrency Control set to the highest degree of parallelism.

Solving an Event Hubs error