Hangfire is a multi-threaded and scalable task scheduler built on client-server architecture on .NET stack (Task Parallel Library and Reflection) with the intermediate storage in a database. There is a free LGPL v3 version with open source. In this article, we are going to explore how to use Hangfire.
Author: Ilya Chumakov
Ilya is a lead C# developer at bi.zone (Moscow, Russia). He is involved in enterprise development, including distributed systems and web services.
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