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# Low latencies & Real-time

Quickwork is designed to be ultra-real-time, offering latencies below 15ms for processing transactions end-to-end, excluding third-party response times. Quickwork provides customers with the ability to configure various parameters per workflow to ensure minimal latencies, especially for synchronous request-reply patterns achieved through API Management, where delays are not acceptable.

### Event Triggers & Near Real-Time Polling

Quickwork supports near-real-time polling, enabling triggers with the polling mechanism to activate every minute or continuously without delay if there are more messages to be polled from the previous cycle.

### Concurrency Controls

Enable provisioned concurrency to maintain a fixed level of simultaneous request handling for this process or operation. This ensures consistent performance by keeping a steady pool of ready-to-serve instances, allowing the system to handle predictable traffic loads reliably. It also helps regulate throughput to downstream systems, preventing overload by capping the rate of concurrent executions.

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### Observability & Performance Telemetry

Built-in monitoring dashboards provides the ability to track per-transaction latencies, detect performance regressions caused by one or more steps in your workflow and identify slow executions end-to-end with detailed traces.

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### Queueing & Prioritization

Quickwork’s internal job queues automatically prioritize real-time requests over batch jobs, and synchronous executions over asynchronous ones. This ensures that time-sensitive transactions are completed promptly, while less critical tasks are queued to avoid contention.