Show concurrency limits & timeout example

[justsml]

To prevent prematurely creating Promises and exhausting resurces, we'll start our Promise chain by simply passing our parent function's params (ids array) into Bluebird .map handler calling our api method - now with sane limits:

// In order to avoid overwhelming `api.getById` - for example lets assume we are limited to 4 concurrent connections we can easily add or remove this kind of real-world requirement 
const getUsersById = (ids = []) => Promise.resolve(ids)
  .map(api.getById, {concurrency: 4})

// Call getUsers, but attach logic to extract names out
const userNames = getUsersById([1, 2, 3])
  .all().spread((users) => users.map(u => u.name))
userNames.then(console.log)) // > ['Emily', 'Mel', 'Paris']

// Or reuse Promise w/ built-in memoization. 
//     +1 for caching lookups + disposing of objects in RAM using JS scope & garbage collection. 
const getUserNamesAndActivity = (userIds) => {
  const users = getUsersById(userIds)
  const userActivity = users.map(({username}) => api.getTopActivity({username}), {concurrency: 4}) // throttle net-bound API calls
  const userNames = users.map(({name}) => name) // no I/O or net-bound call: don't throttle
  return Promise.props({userNames, userActivity});
}

This "requirement" has a funny way of coming up really late in the game, maybe even in production or perhaps after a massive spike in traffic.

Avoid issues caused by "launching" too many Promises at once: simply 'start' with an array of primitive values or with something like: Promise.resolve(Array.from({length: 5000})) Then you just need to call .map and specify the concurrency limit, like so:

Promise.resolve(Array.from({length: 5000}))
  .map((x, idx) => api.activityByIndex(idx))