Understanding handlers for external tasks in version 7

[hassang]

Hi @kper,

You can set maxTasks to 1 and run multiple workers (external task clients).

Below post might be of help to you

Setting the timing parameters for external task clients

Hi @ujay68, I went through the same questions as you and provided some pull requests to the docs for clarification. For example https://docs.camunda.org/manual/develop/user-guide/ext-client/#external-task-throughput You should activate the long polling with a asyncResponseTimeout of maybe two minutes (value 120000) and decrease the backoff to 0. Then the client will look for a new task immediately after the last one is completed. You should get as many tasks per fetch as you expect to be ther…