Hi Stephen
My preference is to use out of the box functionality or, in this case, an extension to the Camunda Batch functionality. There is the added benefit of cockpit support and the management of the batch data in the Camunda DB. Happy for guidance here however as this is the goal of this question.
An alternative would be to implement Java delegates with say Spring Boot with separate Orders DB, which follows a similar pattern to the Camunda Batch approach.
The response from the ‘Post Orders’ will provide a response. In the example I have not represented the a re-submission or approach to retries, timeouts or interventions. Needless to say it must survive a camunda instance crash, the system should not lose any data.
Ideally I was hoping to use the BPMN definition without coding. Previously I’d seen success using Camunda to orchestrate services using the OOTB connectors.
As to my NFRs, there are potentially 100k+ instances requiring processing thus I can spread processing of collection and batch processing across many instances, I’m more concerned about DB scalability, thus far I’ve only checked against 20k+ process instances in a PoC, using Postgres running on my laptop.
Appreciate you time and guidance here.
Regards
Tom.