A production system needs to retrieve data from three independent external APIs simultaneously to build a consolidated report. Which pattern best achieves this while minimizing latency?

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B. Launch parallel Task invocations for each API, then have the coordinator aggregate and synthesize results. Parallel Task invocations run concurrently, reducing total latency to the duration of the slowest individual task rather than the sum of all tasks. Because all three data sources are independent (no task depends on another's output), parallelization is safe and correct. The coordinator then aggregates and synthesizes the concurrent results.

A production system needs to retrieve data from three independent external APIs simultaneously to build a consolidated report. Which pattern best achieves this while minimizing latency?

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