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T. NelsonIntroducing Microsoft Orleanshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8014-0_6

6. Timers and Reminders

Thomas Nelson1  
(1)
Louisville, KY, USA
 

Overview

There are many scenarios where we would need to use reoccurring calls. For instance, we may need to connect to another service every few seconds to pull the latest information, such as for stock prices to display them to the users, or we might be building our own health monitoring service. In these scenarios, we would either rely on the cloud platform or a third-party application or create our own that triggers the process at specific intervals.

Luckily, Orleans created timers and reminders to do just that. ...

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