How flowable handle timer events?

[wwitt]

“Huge” is relative, for some people it means thousands per day for others it means millions per second. I just answered a similar question, the answer may be helpful:

Is there a maximum limit on the number of timer events on flowable?

There is no hard limit on timer events, though you may run into some practical limits based on system resources and your database. When a timer is set it places your process in a wait state (committing it to the database) and puts a job into a database table. When the time comes for it to be executed, an executor on one of the flowable instances connected to the same database will pick it up. Some limitations you may hit: If a significant number of timers from different tasks need to execut…