Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core
by Ganesan Senthilvel, Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Habib Qureshi
WebJobs
WebJobs are background services that can be run by triggering from outside sources, on-demand, or continuous. They run under the same Web App and are managed by Azure Service Fabric. These are a good choice when we have to run an application as a background process for a longer run. One Web App can have a multiple number of WebJobs, and they can all share the same memory, CPU usage, and storage. As WebJobs and Web Apps share the same resources, any of the high-intensity jobs can affect the performance of other WebJobs or Web Apps, and vice versa. WebJobs can listen for events from Queue, blobs, and WebHooks, and can be triggered manually or scheduled to run at a certain time.
WebJobs are highly recommended for scenarios where heavy ...
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