Patent ID: 9614794
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: using a message consumer executing on a particular device to pull, from a message fabric, messages that were produced by a message producer; gathering capabilities information for at least one of: based, at least in part, on the capabilities information, automatically executing at least one consumer clone, of the message consumer, on one or more devices, other than the particular device; wherein, prior to executing the at least one consumer clone, the one or more devices are not being used to pull messages from the message fabric for the message consumer; wherein automatically executing the at least one consumer clone, of the message consumer, on one or more devices, other than the particular device is further based, at least in part, on a target pull rate for the message consumer pulling messages from the message fabric; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.