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December 19, 2020

Service-oriented API Task Scheduling

An integral part of Zato, its scalable, service-oriented scheduler makes it is possible to execute high-level API integration processes as background tasks. The scheduler runs periodic jobs, which, in turn, trigger services, and services are what are used to integrate systems.

Integration Process

In this article, we will check how to use the scheduler with three kinds of jobs, one-time, interval-based, and Cron-style ones.

November 28, 2019

A Dynamic Task Scheduler for ASP.NET Core

There are many task schedulers for ASP.NET. Two of the more famous ones are Quartz.NET and Hangfire. Both of these are amazing tools, and I have personally used Hangfire myself with great success. But, they both suffer from a lack of flexibility and/or complexity in usage.

Quartz.NET suffers from an overly complex API, based upon configuration files, in a difficult to understand format, giving you no syntax highlighting or AutoComplete when you declare your tasks. In addition, the amount of code required to actually create a simple task sometimes feels staggeringly large and unnecessarily complex. The fact that it was "ported" from Java shows as you try to learn its API.

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