BackgroundService

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.

The Consume method of the Kafka Confluent library for C# is synchronous, this post shows you how to use it in a non-blocking way.

This post shows you how to use a synchronous call in a background service without blocking the application or other background services.

It’s not immediately obvious how you can share data between background services. In this post, I show ways of achieving this.

This is a simple example of running a hosted service in a console application. You might want to do this if you need to run a background task in a console application.

Adding a background service to Web API is easy to do, here’s how. (Not saying you should do this!)