Implementing background tasks in .NET Core 2.x webapps or microservices with IHostedService and the BackgroundService class
November 18, 2017Nov 18, 201711/18/17Background 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 you need or you can even make sure that it runs a single instance of that microservice process/container.
