Implementing background tasks in .NET Core 2.x webapps or microservices with IHostedService and the BackgroundService class

Cesar De la TorreNovember 18, 2017Nov 18, 201711/18/17

Background tasks and scheduled jobs are something you might need to implement, eventually, in a microservice based application or in any kind of application. The difference when using a microservices architecture is that you can implement a single microservice process/container for hosting these background tasks so you can scale it down/up as