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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.

Here’s an example of seeding a database with a lot of data using Entity Framework. It avoids slowdowns, timeouts, and using excess memory.

I’m glad that FoxIt PDF reader is available for Linux, but I was disappointed that the Typewriter tool doesn’t have a black color option, here is a way to change it manually.

Getting Confluent Kafka working in Linux is not as easy as in Windows, but it can be done.

Simple example showing how to download a file using HttpClient and GetStreamAsync.