On a current project I've been looking to employ a cloud design pattern known as queue based load levelling, and to implement it using Azure storage components and functions.
The Queue based load levelling pattern The pattern is useful in a range of situations where there's a need for timely and reliable integration between different software systems. In short, the pattern utilises a queue service as a buffer for messages from one system to the other, allowing them to be passed to the destination system for processing in a controlled manner, and at a rate that won’t overwhelm available resources.
It can be adopted where one software system must send messages to another but for various reasons we want to avoid a direct connection between the two. One good reason we might want to do this is simply to reduce coupling – the two systems will need to agree on a message format, but ideally we don’t want to tie them to each other’s implementation details any further than that.
We may…
The Queue based load levelling pattern The pattern is useful in a range of situations where there's a need for timely and reliable integration between different software systems. In short, the pattern utilises a queue service as a buffer for messages from one system to the other, allowing them to be passed to the destination system for processing in a controlled manner, and at a rate that won’t overwhelm available resources.
It can be adopted where one software system must send messages to another but for various reasons we want to avoid a direct connection between the two. One good reason we might want to do this is simply to reduce coupling – the two systems will need to agree on a message format, but ideally we don’t want to tie them to each other’s implementation details any further than that.
We may…