WCF Service or Windows Service for the Calculation Engine component

Asked Oct 26 '16 at 12:06

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I have a requirement to create a Rule based Calculation Engine component which has to be invoked from an ASP.Net MVC application. This component will do some calculations based on some rules and can either return the calculated value or put the calculated value in the database. This engine also needs to be scaled up or scaled out based on future requirements. Initially 5 users per day will be requesting this engine to calculate values, but it may increase in future.

So my question is:

should I create a WCF service for this engine which after invoking returns calculated value
or, should I create a Windows service which keeps on polling a database table for new calculation requests and after calculation puts the result in a database

edited Oct 27 '16 at 10:33

asked Oct 26 '16 at 12:06

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Does the caller require the results of the calculation in a response to their request? – tom redfern Oct 26 '16 at 13:16
Have a look at http://hangfire.io – tom redfern Oct 26 '16 at 13:17
@TomRedfern I have both the options - to return the result immediately or put the result in the DB, but I need that option which can scale the calculation engine component for future – S2S2 Oct 27 '16 at 12:00

WCF Service or Windows Service for the Calculation Engine component

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