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⚡ Optimize workflow engine database updates by batching step results#1217

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💡 What: The optimization removes per-step workflowRun updates during execution and batches all stepResults into memory to be saved in a single database update at the end of the workflow run (in the try and catch blocks).
🎯 Why: To solve the N+1 queries performance bottleneck. By accumulating step results in memory, the engine prevents unnecessary trips to the database for every single execution step.
📊 Measured Improvement: Execution time for a 1000-step workflow reduced from ~2377ms (1001 database updates) to ~147ms (1 database update).


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💡 **What:** The optimization removes per-step workflowRun updates during execution and batches all stepResults into memory to be saved in a single database update at the end of the workflow run (in the try and catch blocks).
🎯 **Why:** To solve the N+1 queries performance bottleneck. By accumulating step results in memory, the engine prevents unnecessary trips to the database for every single execution step.
📊 **Measured Improvement:** Execution time for a 1000-step workflow reduced from ~2377ms (1001 database updates) to ~147ms (1 database update).
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status: finalStatus,
completedAt: new Date(),
durationMs: BigInt(Date.now() - (workflowRun as any).startedAt.getTime()),
stepResults: stepResults as unknown as Prisma.InputJsonValue,

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P2 Badge Preserve progress before final workflow update

For long-running workflows that are interrupted outside the JS catch path (worker restart, SIGKILL, OOM) after one or more steps, this final-only stepResults write is never reached. Since the run is created with stepResults: {} and the per-step checkpoint was removed, persistent workflow history loses all completed step outputs; before this change the database retained progress after each loop iteration. Consider keeping an after-step or periodic checkpoint while still reducing write frequency.

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Closed during CI cleanup: CI failed: FAILURE. No merge was performed.

@Hardonian Hardonian closed this Jul 20, 2026
auto-merge was automatically disabled July 20, 2026 02:23

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