Tactics for Building Background Services in .NET
summary
Compares concrete tactics: runs a demo cleanup job that deletes temp files on a 15s schedule to show how .NET hosted services and Windows services run inside the process, how Quartz gives millisecond cron precision, how Hangfire UI enqueues and retries jobs with a SQL Server backing store, and how Azure Functions auto-scales to consume huge queues (author cites processing hundreds of thousands of items cheaply) while offering built-in retries; notes failures crash local consoles, deployment and backing-store tradeoffs, and when each method actually works.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:32Talk overview
- 9:14Background services fundamentals
- 12:05Background services types
- 14:08Hosting options
- 16:56.NET hosted services
- 21:12Windows service demo
- 25:56Hosted services pros/cons
- 28:02ASP.NET Core hosted services
- 31:59Quartz.NET scheduling
- 32:41Quartz.NET intro
- 34:49Quartz.NET demo
- 38:22Quartz.NET pros/cons
- 39:03Hangfire intro
- 41:08Hangfire demo
- 46:46Hangfire pros/cons
- 52:53Azure Functions
- 53:36Azure Functions demo
- 58:22Azure Functions pros/cons
- 59:47Conclusion & Q&A
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