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JD Davis
JD Davis

Reputation: 3720

Run a scheduled process every day at a certain time on web service

I've been building a web service to synchronize data between SalesForce and Zendesk at my company. In the process of doing so, I've built several optimizations to drastically reduce execution time, such as caching some of the larger datasets that are retrieved from each service.

However, this comes at a price. When caching the data, it can upwards to 3-5 minutes to download everything through SalesForce and Zendesk's APIs.

To combat this, I was thinking of having a background worker that automatically cached all the required data every day a midnight. However, I'm not sure what the best method of doing this would be.

Would it suffice to build a class that merely has a worker thread that checks every several minutes to see if it is after midnight, and activate it on launch from Global.asax. Or is there some sort of scheduler already in existence?

EDIT

There seems to be some division between using something like:

FluentScheduler or Quartz.net to house everything within my applications.

Versus using something like windows task scheduler and writing a secondary application to call a function of my application to do so. It seems that using a third party library would be more simple, but is there any inherent benefit to using the Windows Task Scheduler.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2194

Answers (2)

jonnarosey
jonnarosey

Reputation: 560

I think you want to add your data caching logic to a project of type "console application". You'll be able to deploy this to your server and run it as a scheduled task using windows "Task Scheduler". If you've not worked with this project type or scheduled tasks before there are stack overflow questions which should help here, here, and here. You can add command line parameters if you need and you should have a look at adding a mutex so that only one instance of your code will ever run at once.

Upvotes: 1

silver
silver

Reputation: 1703

add an endpoint that will know how do it and use the windows task scheduler to call that new caching endpoint.

Upvotes: 0

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