Validating Application Performance in a cloud environment, using C#, Hangfire, and RethinkDB

The rise of “platform” sites (e.g. Heroku) enables developers to build and deploy web applications cheaply, without understanding operational problems. Typically these products let you purchase a combination of three things: web servers, databases, and background job execution. This typically works well, as long as you stay within their platform, and as long as their …