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DISTRIBUTED CACHE What’s a Distributed Cache ? A solution that is “deployed” in an application (typically a web application) and that makes sure data is loaded from memory, rather than from disk (which is much slower), in order to improve performance and response time. That looks easy if the cache is to be used on a single machine – you just load your most active data from the database in memory (e.g. a Guava Cache instance), and serve it from there. It becomes a bit more complicated when this has to work in a cluster – e.g. 5 application nodes serving requests to users in a round-robin fashion. You have to update the in-memory cache on all machines each time a piece of data is updated by a request to one of the machines. If you just load all the data in memory and don’t invalidate it, the cache won’t be “coherent” – it will have stale values and requests to different application nodes will have different results, which you most certainly want to avoid. Or you ...

Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs Best link as below:-   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Azure/app-service/web-sites-create-web-jobs#acceptablefiles I'm currently running 16 web sites on Windows Azure. I have a few Virtual Machines, but I prefer to run things using "platform as a service" where I don't have to sweat the underlying Virtual Machine. That means, while I know I can run a Virtual Machine and put "cron" jobs on it, I'm less likely to because I don't want to mess with VMs or Worker Roles. There are a few ways to run stuff on Azure, first, there's IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) which is VMs. Then there's Cloud Applications (Cloud Services) where you can run anything in an Azure-managed VM. It's still a VM, but you have a lot of choice and can run Worker Roles and background stuff. However, there's a lot of ceremony if you just want to run your small "job...