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Fan-Out/Fan-In Pattern Boosts Async HTTP Throughput 10x
A developer demonstrates how fan-out/fan-in orchestration can process 500 independent order line items in parallel, reducing wall-clock time from ~90 seconds to the duration of the slowest single item. The pattern uses Task.WhenAll to schedule all activities at once and aggregate results, surviving orchestrator replays. Sequential processing achieves ~5 activities per second, while fan-out targets ~100 per second per instance.
Meridian48 take
The article's real value is its warning about a one-character bug that silently discards parallelism, a caution every developer using async patterns should heed.
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