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Creating a Throttle with an ActionBlock – Addendum (Cancelling)

In my previous post I described how to create a throttle with an action block so you wouldn’t have too many tasks running simultaneously. But what if you want to cancel the tasks? In our use case, we have a hard-limit of 2 minutes to complete the work (or as much as possible). A typical …

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Creating a Throttle with ActionBlock

We have an application that needs to perform a repetitive task on many external services and record then aggregate the results. As the system has grown the number of external systems has increased which causes some issues as we originally just created a number of tasks and waited on them all completing. This overwhelmed various …

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