Managing concurrently received configuration requests in a computing network

A system for managing concurrent configuration requests in a computing network that includes a set of configurable external entities, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a machine readable medium storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to:
• provide an application processing interface (API) to receive configuration requests, wherein each of a plurality of concurrently received configuration requests relate to a first external entity of the set of external entities of the computing network;
• open a separate database transaction in a configuration database for each received configuration request;
• obtain an existing configuration of the first external entity from the configuration database;
• identify a plurality of configuration deltas based on the received plurality of configuration requests and the obtained existing configuration, each of the plurality of configuration deltas representing a change in the existing configuration of the first external entity requested by one of the plurality of received configuration requests;
• modify the existing configuration of the first external entity using the plurality of identified configuration deltas to generate a single merged provisioning request for the first external entity;
• issue the merged provisioning request to the first external entity to implement the changes in the configuration of the first external entity requested by each of the received configuration requests;
• and
• following successful completion of the merged provisioning request by the first external entity, commit the database transaction for each received configuration request.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processing resource, cause the processing resource to:

• provide an application processing interface (API) to receive configuration requests, wherein each of a plurality of concurrently received configuration requests relate to a first network entity of a computing network;
• open a separate database transaction in a configuration database for each received configuration request;
• obtain an existing configuration of the first network entity from the configuration database;
• identify a plurality of configuration deltas based on the received plurality of configuration requests and the obtained existing configuration, each of the plurality of configuration deltas representing a change in the existing configuration of the first network entity requested by one of the plurality of received configuration requests;
• modify the existing configuration of the first network entity using the identified configuration deltas to generate a single merged provisioning request for the first network entity;
• issue the merged provisioning request to the first network entity to implement the changes in the configuration of the first network entity requested by each of the received configuration requests;
• and
• following successful completion of the merged provisioning request by the first network entity, committing the database transaction for each received configuration request.