In modern software, events don't arrive in a neat, orderly queue. They come in bursts—a flash sale unleashes thousands of orders, a viral marketing campaign triggers a flood of sign-ups, or a major code merge fires off a storm of CI/CD pipeline notifications. For developers and operations teams, this high-concurrency scenario is a classic double-edged sword: it signals success, but it also threatens to overwhelm systems, leading to dropped data, processing errors, and a poor user experience.
Traditional workflow automation tools often struggle under this load. But what if you could treat concurrency as a feature, not a bug?
At Triggers.do, we believe that event-driven architecture shouldn't be fragile. Our platform is built to handle high-volume, concurrent events gracefully. By defining simple, code-based triggers, you can orchestrate complex, parallel, and resilient agentic workflows that thrive under pressure.
When you're hit with a sudden burst of events from a webhook or message queue, several problems can arise:
Triggers.do provides a robust framework that gives you the tools to manage—and even leverage—event concurrency directly in your trigger definitions and workflow design.
The moment an event hits a Triggers.do endpoint, it's ingested as a discrete, atomic unit. From there, our platform excels at orchestrating parallel workflows. A single event can kick off multiple, independent agentic workflows that run simultaneously without blocking each other.
This is a powerful concept. Instead of a monolithic workflow that tries to do everything, you can compose smaller, specialized workflows.
Take the FAQ example of a new e-commerce order. A single shopify.order.created event can trigger three workflows at once:
Each workflow runs in its own context, managing its own state and logic. This parallel approach is inherently more scalable and easier to maintain than a single, complex process.
One of the best ways to manage a flood of events is to ignore the ones you don't care about. Triggers.do lets you define precise conditional filters that are evaluated before any workflow is ever initiated. This prevents your system from wasting resources on irrelevant data.
Let's say you only want to run a special fraud check on high-value international orders during your flash sale. You can define a trigger that does exactly that.
By handling this logic at the trigger level, you shield your run-advanced-fraud-check workflow from the noise of thousands of domestic or low-value orders.
While Triggers.do manages the invocation, designing idempotent workflows is a key best practice for concurrency. An idempotent operation is one that can be performed multiple times with the same initial input, yet the result will be the same as if it had been performed only once.
Our agentic workflows can easily be designed for idempotency. For example:
If this workflow runs once or five times due to retries, the outcome is the same: the user is on the list. You can use the unique ID of the triggering event within your workflow logic to check if a process has already been completed, ensuring you never charge a customer or send a notification twice.
Under the hood, Triggers.do is built on a robust queuing system. When 10,000 events arrive in a minute, they aren't all fired at your downstream systems instantly. They are safely queued and processed by our agentic workers. This inherently smooths out spikes and protects your external API integrations from being throttled.
You can further enhance this by designing your workflows to be "rate-aware." An agentic workflow can include logic to interact with an external API respectfully, incorporating small delays or checking API usage headers before making the next call.
Concurrency isn't something to fear; it's a reality of the digital world. The key is to have a platform that provides the right abstractions and tools to manage it effectively.
With Triggers.do, you get a powerful, code-first environment for business process automation that is designed for the high-volume, high-concurrency nature of modern events. Stop worrying about building complex event-ingestion infrastructure and focus on what matters: defining the business logic that drives your success.
Ready to turn event chaos into scalable automation? Define your first trigger on Triggers.do today!
import { trigger } from '@do-sdk/triggers';
// This workflow will ONLY run for orders over $500
// from outside the United States.
await trigger.create({
name: 'High-Value International Order Check',
event: 'shopify.order.created',
filter: 'body.total_price > 500.00 && body.shipping_address.country_code != "US"',
workflow: 'run-advanced-fraud-check',
});