Advanced background processing

The design of background processing is essential for meeting service‑level agreements and ensuring smooth, automated operations. Pega Platform™ supports the processing of work outside the user interaction cycle to keep applications responsive, scalable, and resilient. Modern patterns, such as asynchronous integrations, event‑driven pipelines, real‑time stream processing, and large‑scale data movement, support efficient handling of complex workloads. These patterns help create scalable, observable, and fault‑tolerant background solutions for the timely completion of work, even under high‑volume and low‑latency demands.

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After completing this module, you should be able to:

Evaluate background processing design options.

Configure asynchronous processing for integration.

Optimize default agents for your application.

Design scalable and resilient background pipelines.

Modernize legacy agent‑based designs.

Implement reliable background processing solutions.

Available in the following mission:

Implementation and Deployment v1

Topics

Messaging design patterns

20 mins

Asynchronous integration 

20 mins

Architectural principles of background processing

15 mins

Queue processors and job schedulers

20 mins

Other background processing options

20 mins

Stream service

20 mins

Data flows

15 mins

Background processing modernization

15 mins

Architectural patterns for Data Sets

10 mins

Module Quiz

20 mins