background-services

What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides robust patterns for implementing background services, handling outbox patterns for reliable message delivery, and managing graceful shutdown in ASP.NET Core applications, preventing data loss and ensuring application stability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Background Task Execution: Offload long-running or scheduled tasks from the request pipeline using BackgroundService and IHostedService.
• Reliable Messaging: Implement the Outbox pattern to ensure messages are never lost, even during failures.
• Graceful Shutdown: Manage application shutdown sequences to complete in-flight operations and release resources cleanly.
• Use Case: A web application needs to process uploaded images asynchronously. This Skill can be used to create a BackgroundService that picks up image processing jobs from a queue, resizes them, and stores them, ensuring that even if the application restarts, no jobs are lost due to the Outbox pattern.

Quick Start

Register a new background service by adding builder.Services.AddHostedService<YourBackgroundService>(); to your application's service configuration.