Question

I have next situation:

1) N workers, all workers do same things

2) Each worker have persistant socket connection to third party service, so one connection should be served by one instance of worker

My question: how to implement workers to pickup one connection, and let others workers instnaces to know that connection to third party sertvice already established?

Currently i implemented this by queue, so another worker(lets say scaling worker) place message into queue, and this messages fetched one by one by workers.

Does there any better solution?

Answer 1

You can implement inter-role communication via WCF and endpoints or the Azure AppFabric messaging bus. Check out a tutorial on how to do this here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee706736.aspx.