A Deep Dive on Running Background Tasks in .NET Core
summary
Covers concrete options: BackgroundService/IHostedService for simple timers and long‑running loops, worker service and Windows Task Scheduler for legacy VMs, Hangfire with Hangfire recurring jobs and built‑in retries and dashboard, Azure Functions with cold starts and a $157/mo Premium tier, and container approaches for heavy CPU work. Gives a case study where moving from Azure Functions to Kubernetes yields 80% cost savings, shows health checks and logging strategies for observability, and warns against running CPU‑bound work inside web apps.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:04Why background tasks matter
- 5:00Legacy systems and task scheduler
- 11:57IHostedService and background services
- 19:20Worker service project template
- 23:13Hangfire for background jobs
- 30:58Azure Functions for tasks
- 36:26Azure Web Jobs overview
- 37:08Containers for background tasks
- 41:42Customer case study scaling
- 44:10Observability and monitoring
- 46:44Health checks in .NET Core
- 48:56Q&A and resources
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