Microsoft Orleans for Developers: Build Cloud-Native, High-Scale, Distributed Systems in .NET Using Orleans

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

R. AstburyMicrosoft Orleans for Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8167-3_10

10. Timers and Reminders

Richard Astbury¹  

(1)

Woodbridge, UK

 

So far, we have seen grains being called by a client, and in response to messages in streams, but in some cases, we want to run code on a regular basis, perhaps every few seconds or minutes to support polling or a refresh. Perhaps we want to schedule code to be executed at a particular time in the future.

To address these requirements, Orleans supports Timers and Reminders.

In this chapter, we’ll use a timer to collect reads and writes to the cache grains.

Timers vs. Reminders

Timers and Reminders have the same API ...