understood.

What's the design pattern you recommend Temporal users use to implement multiple consumers?

Usecase: Handle a large, spiky backlog by dynamically sharding the consumer input, starting and putting multiple consumers to work until the backlog is within nominal specs.

Eg: Shipping orders during a sales event. Each S&H order takes the same response time but multiple S&H orders can be parallelized and there are a few hundred thousand orders pending. Of course, S&H order can fail, in which case they are restored to the pending state after a timeout or loss of a lock