Azure Worker Role Deployment for background data

Question

I want my application to be in 2 phases. 1 part will simply fetch data in json format from an API and store it to a SQL database(or maybe a NO-SQL) and the other half(the web part) will read the data and implement customize alerts. So, basically i need to create a worker for the fetch process. But I'm confused between worker role and web role in Azure. Kindly help me what's the best possible way to implement this design?

Answer 1

You can just merge both in the same web role - the part of code running in IIS (the ASP.NET project created when you create a web role from a Visual Studio template) will handle web requests and the part running the "role entry point" will run the fetch process. Unless you absolutely need to scale them separately this will give you a simpler and more manageable solution.

Answer 2

Have you looked at this tutorial? It gives possible use cases and tutorials for both web and worker roles.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-multi-tier-app-storage-1-overview/