Could I know the significance of taskQueuePartitions in presence of high load on a single task Queue? From @maxim ’s talk on How to Design a workflow engine from first principles , I inferred that a single task queue must reside on a single shard (which is why local transfer queues exist…to transfer…

I think there is some terminology confusion. Temporal history service divides workflow id space into numHistoryShards shards. Each shard contains a transfer queue. This queue implements an outbox pattern as tasks are inserted into it using the same transaction that updates the workflow state. Task…

Scaling Task Queues | Correlation between numHistoryShards, taskQueuePartitions, number of matching service hosts

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maxim January 13, 2023, 7:45pm 6

You have to configure 100 partitions to support 10k tasks per second.

Estimating the right configuration values of the temporal services

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Scaling Task Queues | Correlation between numHistoryShards, taskQueuePartitions, number of matching service hosts

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