The Direct Line API channel has also been upgraded with geographic-specific endpoints to ensure even faster transmissions.ĭ routes your client to the nearest datacenter. The most dramatic improvement has been in our European datacenters, which is 400ms faster than it was, and our Asian datacenter, which is consistently 450ms faster.” Our requests from Seattle to California have dropped from 300ms to around 180ms. “In our US datacenters, we’re observing 100ms faster requests. The Direct Line API, which allows to embed bots in mobile apps, webpages, or server-to-server applications has now a new backend storage system that will dramatically improve the performance of Direct Line conversations. Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API improvementsĪccording to Microsoft, demand for their Direct Line API channel has exceeded expectations, that´s why the company has also worked on some performance improvements. The whole list of changes can be found here.
The tool now supports WebChat 0.5.1, locale-setting of bot connections and an experimental host-proxy settings feature. Microsoft has also updated its Bot Framework Channel Emulator to version 3.5.25.
