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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.

Simple example of using MassTransit with a single producer and a competing set of consumers.

It seems none of the Docker images of Kafka have sufficient instructions to run the container, and access it from the host computer. Here I show how to get bitnami/kafka working.

There are times when it is necessary to use handwritten SQL with Entity Framework Core. In this post I should how to do that, and to mix it with the usual fluent statements.