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By default, the Confluent Kafka client consumes one message at time, but with a bit of work it can consume batches of messages.

In the past VS Code would automatically create the .vscode directory with the tasks.json and launch.json files. This stopped happening some time ago, but there are still occasions when you need them. Here is a simple command to generate them.

Caches are usually used to store concrete values, but with C# you can store tasks for work you want to perform only once, at the time the key is first requested from the cache.

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

You often don’t have the Dockerfile that was used to create the image of the container you are running. But what if you want to know what is run when the container starts?

Getting going with MySQL and Entity Framework is very easy, follow this guide to get started.

If you use the Worker Service template in .NET, you may want to do some cleanup when the background service is canceled. In this post, I’ll show you how to do this.

There are a few ways to kill a host application from a BackgroundService. In this post I’ll show what is probably the most correct way.

A simple command is all that is needed to run Apache Kafka in Docker

You can develop, build, and run enterprise .NET applications on Linux. Here is a little info to help you get started.