Background Processing with .NET 10 (Paperback)

Paperback. Building a background task is easy. Building one that survives failures, shuts down cleanly, controls overload, avoids duplicate work, and keeps running reliably in production is much harder.Background Processing with .NET 10 gives you a clear, step-by-step path from simple Worker Service fundamentals to dependable production background systems. You do not need prior experience with IHostedService, BackgroundService, Channels, durable messaging, backpressure, idempotency, or OpenTelemetry. A basic working knowledge of C# and async/await is enough.Using one practical project-DocFlow, a document-processing Worker Service-you will build confidence one layer at a time. Each chapter introduces a problem, explains why it matters, and shows how to solve it with focused examples. Mistakes, failed shutdowns, duplicate work, slow dependencies, and growing queues become useful engineering signals that help you improve your system.Key FeaturesPractical, incremental .NET 10 Worker Service developmentReal-world coverage of hosted services, scheduling, queues, concurrency, resilience, testing, observability, and deploymentA hands-on DocFlow project that grows throughout the bookSmall, manageable code examples with clear explanationsVerification checklists, review questions, practical exercises, troubleshooting guidance, and production-readiness referencesWhat You Will LearnBuild Worker Services with the .NET Generic HostUse IHostedService, BackgroundService, dependency injection, configuration, and loggingDesign cancellation and graceful shutdown correctlyRun scheduled work with PeriodicTimer and TimeProviderBuild bounded producer-consumer queues with System.Threading.Channels and backpressureControl concurrency, parallelism, throughput, and resource pressureImplement durable message processing with Azure Service BusApply retries, backoff, idempotency, deduplication, and inbox/outbox patternsTest cancellation, timing, queues, messaging, and failure pathsAdd structured logging, metrics, health signals, OpenTelemetry, and tracingDeploy workers in containers, Windows Services, and Linux systemdWho This Book Is ForC# developers, self-learners, students, and professionals who are new to background-processing architecture and want a practical route to production-ready Worker Services. No previous experience with .NET hosted services, Channels, durable messaging, or observability is required.Table of ContentsBuilding Background Applications with the .NET 10 Generic HostHosted Services, Lifecycle, Cancellation, and Graceful ShutdownEngineering Periodic and Scheduled Background WorkBuilding Asynchronous Work Queues with ChannelsControlling Concurrency, Parallelism, and ThroughputDurable Background Processing with External QueuesResilience, Retries, and Idempotent ProcessingTesting Background Processing and Failure PathsObservability, Health, and Performance EngineeringDeploying and Operating Worker Services in ProductionStart building background systems that are not only functional, but reliable, observable, scalable, and ready for real production workloads. Begin your .NET 10 Worker Service journey today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…