What are the advantages of using shared flows?

[nmunro]

Hello,

I came across the documentation for shared flows and would like to hear from anyone that has used or is using shared flows.

Currently, we achieve a similar result with a Common API that has flow fragments injected into the proxy at build time.

However, it does mean that each new proxy requires us to go through the same steps each time to add in these common/shared flows and we enforce this through reviews of pull requests.

Shared flows (with flow hooks) look as though they may save us some time in both proxy configuration and enforcement of some features that we'd like on all proxies.

If you have used shared flows, what advantages or disadvantages have you found over other methods? What other methods do you use?

It's not clear from the docs but I'm guessing that faults are handled by the proxy calling the shared flow callout?