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Taskling.NET uses a keep alive or heartbeat to signal that it is still running. This is useful because when running batch jobs in unstable hosts like IIS the process can be killed off with a ThreadAbortException and the job isn't always able to log it's demise. With a keep alive we know that the job really died if a few minutes pass without a keep alive and the status of the job is "In Progress".
But one problem is how do you reliably kill a keep alive?
Your Taskling jobs can be configured with concurrency limits and those jobs will never have more than the configured number of executions of that job running at any time.
Some batch and micro-batch jobs need to be singletons, there to be only one execution running at any point in time. This may be to avoid data consistency issues when persisting results or because only a single session can be opened to a third party service etc. Other batch processes need more than one execution running at the same time in order to cope with the data volume but have a concurrency limit in order to not overwhelm downstream systems or third party services.
Taskling.NET is a C# batch processing library that enables you to avoid rewriting the same code over and over again for batch and micro-batch jobs.
