Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

Actor reminders

Just like Actor timers, Actor reminders are a triggering mechanism to invoke callbacks at periodic intervals. However, unlike Actor timers, Actor reminder callbacks are always triggered until they are explicitly unregistered. If an Actor has been deactivated, an Actor reminder callback will reactivate the Actor and invoke the registered callback. Actor reminders are generally used to carry out asynchronous processing such as data aggregation by applications. The syntax for registering reminders is very similar to that of timers:

    IActorReminder reminderRegistration = await       this.RegisterReminderAsync(         reminderName,                   // Name of reminder          BitConverter.GetBytes(payload), // Parameter  TimeSpan.FromDays(3), // Amount of time to ...