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Flows from the field: Concurrency controls; Event Hubs error; Social media monitoring; Calling actions; Changeset transactions

by Eamon McCarthy Earls
Assistant Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

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

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About Eamon McCarthy Earls

As the assistant editor at MSDynamicsWorld.com, Eamon helps to oversee editorial content on the site and supports site management and strategy. He can be reached at eearls@msdynamicsworld.com.

Before joining MSDynamicsWorld.com, Eamon was editor for SearchNetworking.com at TechTarget, where he covered networking technology, IoT, and cybersecurity. He is also the author of multiple books and previously contributed to publications such as the Boston Globe, Milford Daily News, and DefenceWeb.