Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 2: Practical Examples

Theory is one thing; production code is another. In Part 1 we covered the abstractions—now let's see how they're applied in a real codebase. This article walks through actual background services from this blog platform: file watchers with Polly retry policies,…

Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 1: The Approaches

Every modern web application has work that shouldn't block an HTTP request—sending emails, processing files, syncing with external services, running scheduled maintenance. ASP.NET Core provides multiple approaches for handling this background work, from simple…

Unit Testing Umami.Net - Testing UmamiBackgroundSender

In the previous article, we discussed how to test the UmamiClient using xUnit and Moq. In this article, we will discuss how to test the UmamiBackgroundSender class. The UmamiBackgroundSender is a bit different to UmamiClient as it uses IHostedService to stay…