Is it a good idea to reuse an Azure web role for backend processing?
问题 I'm porting a huge application to Windows Azure. It will have a web service frontend and a processing backend. So far I thought I would use web roles for servicing client requests and worker roles for backend processing. Managing two kinds of roles seems problematic - I'll need to decide how to scale two kinds of roles and also I'll need several (at least two) instances of each to ensure reasonable fault tolerance and this will slightly increase operational costs. Also in my application