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Microservices with Azure

You're reading from   Microservices with Azure Build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121140
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Namit Tanasseri Namit Tanasseri
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Rahul Rai Rahul Rai
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Preface 1. Microservices – Getting to Know the Buzzword FREE CHAPTER 2. Microsoft Azure Platform and Services Primer 3. Understanding Azure Service Fabric 4. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables 5. Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services 6. Reliable Actors 7. Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation 8. Microservices Architectural Patterns 9. Securing and Managing Your Microservices 10. Diagnostics and Monitoring 11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 12. Serverless Microservices

Asynchronous drivers

Most of the Actor actions are driven as reaction to an input received from the client. However, Actors can update their own state at regular intervals through timers and reminders. Actors can also post updates to the clients on the progress of operations using events. Let's take a brief look at each of these attributes.

Timers

Reliable Actor timers are modelled on timers available in the system.Timers namespace. The timers are usually used to carry out routine operations in the lifetime of an Actor, for example processing input data at a certain rate. You can declare and register a timer in your application using the following code, usually in the OnActivateAsync method:

private IActorTimer _updateTimer...
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