Looks like Server-side parallel processing has stopped in the past 48 hours

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So sometime in the past couple of days, some change was introduced to how automation runs parallel processing.

  • I’ve got a bot that writes an automation trigger to a set of records; you can see the edits come into the data source when the bot runs, and everything USED to run in parallel.
  • But over the past 48 hours I’ve observed this has stopped, and now every single execution of a group of things seems to completely run in sequence.
  • FYI: I’m on an enterprise license for this app.

Meaning things now progress in the following manner:

  1. Process record 1 of 52… wait… wait… wait… done.
  2. Process record 2 of 52… wait… wait… wait.. done.
  3. Process record 3 of 52… wait… done. (Ooo, that one was faster than the rest.)
  4. Process record 4 of 52… you see the problem?

These used to run in parallel, suddenly they’re not.

So things went from:

  • Client: I’ve got a bunch of stuff that needs to be process; like 50 or more.
  • Me: Hey you need to process 50 of these things.. no prob. 20 seconds or less.

To:

  • Client: I need to process 50 things.
  • Me: Oh sure we can accomplish that; it’ll take some time for the system to systematically work it’s way through the data, crunch things, get all the processing you want done for each individual thing. But we might be able to setup some sort of system that could alert you when it finishes; so you could go eat lunch for 30 minutes, and come back and your things would be processed."

Meh…

What sucks is the team I’m working with were LITERALLY ready to show our project to potential investors tomorrow… but now… well… it takes half an hour to do something that we told them was done in minutes… so…

Pepe the frog - watching a bomb (nuke) go off.gif

  • Okay, that’s a bit dramatic… :rofl:

But I hope you feel my sentiment. I did nothing on my end; the bot has been the way it has been for at least a week or more - running in parallel, processing 50 or so records in less than 20 seconds. It was amazing!

I hope this was just some oversight or something, and not a platform-wide shift.

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What pricing/plan do they use?

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They’ve got an enterprise license - they were actually one of the very first clients of AppSheet to get one, part of the pilot program even!

It’s a sizable package; the yearly cost boggles my mind each time I see the number honestly; even got a BAA.

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@JuneCorpuz was this something you were facing too ?

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No, it’s different. If I have 50 syncs, that 50th sync is the only automation that will run.

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Please file a support ticket if you haven’t already so we can get more details and investigate the issue

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