Is there any inherent advantage when using multiple workers to process pieces of procedural code versus processing the entire load? In other words, if my workflow looks like this: Get work from queue0 and do A Store result from A in queue1 Get result from queue 1 and do B Store result from B in queue2 Get result from queue2 and do C...
I've built a backend in ASP.NET MVC2 which has an underlying ADO.NET Entity-based Database. In the MVC Backend, I call my database entities, i.e.: Entities entities = new Entities(); ...and that all works fine. Unforutnetly, in my Azure/mvc2 project, My worker role makes the azure project throw weird exceptions: "The specified name...
My WorkerRole seems to just fine locally. However, it wont run on Azure itself - the role just keeps coming up as 'Busy' and never reaches the ready/running stage. The associated web role works perfectly. Could this just be a minor config bug or? ...
Hi Guys, I've gotten my worker role to ...work. Now i'm having one more minor issue. My worker role access SQL Azure through the Entity Framework. I'm tring to create a list of populated Email objects from my database and then send those emails. The code works fine locally, but throws exceptions when deployed in the cloud. To Clarfiy:...
I know that you can only have 1 web role per instance but does this apply to Background roles as well? In more detail can 1 instance run a background role and a web role? ...
I want to pull large amount of data, frequently from different third party API web services and store it in a staging area (this is what I want to decide right now) from where it will be then moved one by one as required into my application's database. I wanted to know that can I use Azure platform to achieve the above? How good is it t...
I want to combine the features and function of the Azure Web Role and Worker Role into one. My driving reason for this is because I only need one of each, but the SLA is forcing me to get two instances of each role. Since 4 * $0.12 / hour is more than what I want to spend out of pocket, I want to combine purposes into two highly availa...
I'm posting the question that first appears here because it seems that it is dead on the Microsoft forums. Plus, Stack Overflow is better. :-P I'm hosting a TCP endpoint in a worker role on Azure -- var _breadcrumbServiceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(BreadcrumbService)); var binding = new NetTcpBinding(SecurityMode.None); var externalE...
Hi, We have a worker role running in the cloud which polls an Azure CloudQueue periodically retrieving messages that a web role has put on there for us. Currently the worker role and web role are housed in the same Cloud Service application and currently we are only running one instance. As we are testing we have our logging switched ...