Can MSMQ automatically process queue? - c#

I have a web application that is processing some documents and emailing users and this could take some time, so I thought I'd use MSMQ to accomplish this. I've never used MSMQ and I have a few questions about how the queuing system would process the messages I send.
If I send a message can I setup the program to start processing the message right away?
If there are 10 message in the queue can the program start automatically and process each message --one at a time--?
How does the program know to start processing the queue?
If you know the answers to my questions can you also give an example?
Thanks!

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RabbitMq check if message exists in queue

I'm looking the best way for know if a RabbitMq message is processed or exists in queue. I have my Web Management that sends messages to my queue with a loot of traffic. My app checks in the database, during 1 minute if the consumer insert the new data on the database but if is not inserted the app shows a error, that the data is not inserted. The problem is in the case of high demand the delay can be a lot of time, and the data can be inserted after of the delay and the user of the Web Management donĀ“t know if the data was inserted and the user can try to send another message to the queue. I need to know if is possible check if a message exists in the queue or know if the message was processed.
Simplest answer.... no, you can't because it's against the architecture of an queue. It's build to post messages in and consume it constantly.
The only chance, if you are just working with 1 consumer is, interrupt it, consume ALL messages and repost them to the Queue and check if the desired message was consumed. Be aware, it will mess up the queue! I think a better solution will be another queue, where you consumer can publish a "finished" message on an own queue, which your original publisher can consume.

C# - Save multiple blobs into azure account

I've got a simple project that use M2mqtt client library to connect to HiveMQ broker. When a message arrives an event will fire, the fact is I can receive up to 100 messages per second and the program is able to processing just 20 messages per second.
HiveMQClient.MqttMsgPublishReceived += HiveMQClient_MqttMsgPublishReceived;
So, I have all the HiveMQ logs and telemetry and i can clearly see that the messages arrives in my application with the right rate (100 per second) but the strange thing is that the CPU of the PC where the client program is hosted runs at 10% of its capacity.
I was wondering if I need to "multi thread the event" or there is something that I'm missing.
Thank you all
EDIT
Inside the MqttMsgPublishReceived event i've got a ThreadPool that stores the messages that i receive inside an azure blob account. After some reviews I understood that this is the problem (thanks #Hans Kilian ).
Now i've got an azure blob storage account, standard configuration) that accepts only 30 calls per second. I tried to update into the premium tier but it is only for virtual machine VHD images.
Anybody knows how to improve these numbers?
The MqttMsgPublishReceived call back runs on the clients network thread, if you are interested in performance then you should not be doing any real work in this callback.
For high performance applications the model is normally to use the MqttMsgPublishReceived method to place the incoming message in a local queue in the client and have a thread pool consuming messages from that queue.
This becomes even more important when using QOS 1 or 2 messages as the broker will not send the next message until the MqttMsgPublishReceived has returned and the QOS handshake completes.
As #HandKilian says in the comments things like databases can also be a bottle neck, but using a thread pool combined with a database connection pool can help as it makes sure you are not building and tearing down a connection to the database for each message.

Service bus requiring messages

What is the best way to implement in service bus messages that are requiring once a week or once a day etc.
I am thinking of having a separate windows service that just drops in messages from the database into the service bus but is there another way?
In simple terms i want a message that once it is processed, it will appear again in the queue in a specified amount of time to be processed again.Obviously once i process a message i can tell service bus to delete the message or appear again in the queue.
You will need to have some external process (e.g. your windows service) which sends the message in the first place, on schedule. You can use Azure Scheduler to do that, see http://www.prasadthinks.com/blog/2015/07/11/azure-scheduler-can-post-to-azure-service-bus-queue-and-topic/
When you are processing your message, you can do what you are describing i.e. re-send a copy of the message, using BrokeredMessage.ScheduledEnqueueTimeUtc property so that it arrives at the time you want. But I wouldn't do that, does not feel right. If you have your external processing already sending messages on schedule, just rely on that 100%.

MSMQ concurrent processing design issue

I have a windows service written in C# that reads from MSMQ and based on the type of the message it assigns them to Agents that process that message in a worker thread. The application starts with no agents and are created dynamically at runtime as messages arrive in the MSMQ
Here is a basic figure of how it works:
If the agent worker thread is busy doing work the message is queued to its local queue. So far so good. But if for some reason if the service is stopped, the local queue content is lost.
I am trying to figure out what could be the best way to handle this scenario. Right now the local queues are a System.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue. I could probably use a Sql Ce db or some other persistent storage, but i am worried about performance. The other thing in my mind is to read from MSMQ only when agents are ready to process message, but the problem is that I don't know what message the MSMQ will contain.
What possible approaches can I take on this issue?
Your design is basically implements the following pattern: http://www.eaipatterns.com/MessageDispatcher.html
However, rather than using actual messaging you are choosing to implement the dispatcher in multithreaded code.
Rather, each processing agent should be an autonomous process with it's own physical message queue. This is what will provide message durability in case of failure. It also allows you to scale simply by hosting more instances of the processing agent.
I have built a similar system dependent on Redis. The idea is that it provides memory - fast data access isolated from the rest of the application, and will not shut down when my service does. Furthermore, it will eventually persist my data to the disk, so I get a good compromise between reliability and speed.
If you designed it so that each client read from its own message queue that would be hosted in Redis, you could keep the queue independent from the service's downtime, and each worker's load apportioned when you next start the service.
Why don't you simply create two new msms queues to receive the messages for Agenta and agentb, and create a new agent that ( transactionally ) fetch the command from the main queue and dispatch the message to the proper agent queue ?

Selective Reading From a Queue--Custom MSMQ Service, ESB, or Something Else?

Looking for some ideas/pattern to solve a design problem for a system I will be starting work on soon. There is no question that I will need to use some sort of messaging (probably MSMQ) to communicate between certain areas of the system. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but at the same time I want to make sure I am using the right tool for the job. I have been tinkering with and reading up on NServiceBus, and I'm very impressed with what it does--however I'm not sure it's intended for what I'm trying to achieve.
Here is a (hopefully) very simple and conceptual description of what the system needs to do:
I have a service that clients can send messages to. The service is "Fire and Forget"--the most the client would get back is something that may say success or failure (success being that the message was received).
The handling/processing of each message is non-trivial, and may take up significant system resources. For this reason only X messages can be handled concurrently, where X is a configurable value (based on system specs, etc.). Incoming messages will be stored in queue until it's "their turn" to be handled.
For each client, messages must be handled in order (FIFO). However, some clients may send many messages in succession (thousands or more), for example if they lost connectivity for a period of time. For this reason, messages must be handled in a round-robin fashion across clients--no client is allowed to gorge and no client is allowed to starve. So the system will either have to be able to query the queue for a specific client, or create separate queues per client (automatically, since the clients won't be known at compile time) and pull from them in rotation.
My current thinking is that I really just need to use vanilla MSMQ, create a service to accept messages and write them to one or more queues, then create a process to read messages from the queue(s) and handle/process them. However, the reliability, auditing, scaleability, and ease of configuration you get with something like NServicebus looks very appealing.
Is an ESB the wrong tool for the job? Is there some other technology or pattern I should be looking at?
Update
A few clarifications.
Regarding processing messages "in order"--in the context of a single client, the messages absolutely need to be processed in the order they are received. It's complicated to explain the exact reasons why, but this is a firm requirement. I neglected to mention that only one message per client would ever be processed concurrently. So even if there were 10 worker threads and only one client had messages waiting to be processed, only one of those messages would be processed at a time--there would be no worry of a race condition.
I believe this is generally possible with vanilla MSMQ--that you can have a list of messages in a queue and always take the oldest one first.
I also wanted to clarify a use case for the round robin ordering. In this example, I have two clients (A and B) who send messages, and only one worker thread. All queues are empty. Client A has lost connectivity overnight, so at 8am sends 1000 messages to the service. These messages get queued up and the worker thread takes the oldest one and starts processing it. As this first message is being processed, client B sends a message into the service, which gets queued up (as noted, probably in a separate queue). When Client A's first message completes processing, the logic should check whether client B has a message (it's client B's "turn"), and since it finds one, process it next.
If client B hadn't sent a message during that time, the worker would continue processing client A's messages one at a time, always checking after processing to see if other client queues contained waiting messages to ensure that no client was being starved.
Where I still feel there may be a mismatch between an ESB and this problem is that an ESB is designed to facilitate communication between services; what I am trying to achieve is a combination of messaging/communication and a selective queuing system.
So the system will either have to be
able to query the queue for a specific client,
Searching through an MSMQ queue for a message from a particular client using cursors can be inefficient and doesn't scale.
or create separate queues per client (automatically, since the
clients won't be known at compile time) and pull from them in rotation.
MSMQ cannot create queues automatically. All messages have to be sent to a known queue first. Your own custom dispatcher service, though, could then create new queues on demand and put copies of the messages in them.
[[I avoid saying "move" messages as you can't do that with application code; you can only read a message and create a new message using the original data. This distinction is important when you are using Source Journaling, for example.]]
Cheers
John Breakwell
Using an ESB like NServiceBus seems like a good solution to your problem. But based on your conceptual description, there's some things to consider. Let's go through your requirements step-by-step, using NServiceBus as a possible ESB solution:
I have a service that clients can send messages to. The service is "Fire and Forget"--the most the client would get back is something that may say success or failure (success being that the message was received).
This is easily done with NServiceBus. You can Bus.Send(Message) from the client. If your client requires an answer, you can use Bus.Return(ErrorCode). You mention that "success being that the message was received". If you use an ESB like NServiceBus, it's up to the messaging platform the deliver the message. So, if your Bus.Send doesn't throw an exception, you can be sure that the message has been sent properly. Because of this you don't probably have to send success / failure messages back to the client.
The handling/processing of each message is non-trivial, and may take up significant system resources. For this reason only X messages can be handled concurrently, where X is a configurable value (based on system specs, etc.). Incoming messages will be stored in queue until it's "their turn" to be handled.
When using NServiceBus, you can configure the the number of worker threads by setting the "NumberOfWorkerThreads" option. If your server has multiple cores / cpus, you can use this setting to balance the work load.
For each client, messages must be handled in order (FIFO).
This is something that may cause problems depending on your requirements. ESBs in general don't promise to process the messages in-order, if they have many threads working on the messages. In a case of NServiceBus, you can send an array of messages from the client into the bus and these will be processed in-order. Also, you can solve some of the in-order messaging problems by using Sagas.
However, some clients may send many messages in succession (thousands or more), for example if they lost connectivity for a period of time
When using an ESB solution, your server doesn't have to be up for the client to work. Clients can still send messages and the server will start processing them as soon as it's back online. Here's a small introduction on this.
For this reason, messages must be handled in a round-robin fashion across clients--no client is allowed to gorge and no client is allowed to starve.
This isn't a problem because you've decided to use messages :)
So the system will either have to be able to query the queue for a specific client, or create separate queues per client (automatically, since the clients won't be known at compile time) and pull from them in rotation.
Could you expand on this? I'm not sure of your design on this one.

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