BackgroundService is one of the most useful primitives in ASP.NET Core — and one of the most quietly dangerous. It runs outside the HTTP request pipeline, holds no implicit scope, and fails in ways th
Background services are a fixture in any production ASP.NET Core system — processing queues, sending notifications, running cleanup jobs, syncing data from external systems. They look simple from the
Memory growth that never stops is one of the most disorienting production problems a .NET team can face. The service looks fine in development, passes every load test, and then steadily climbs toward
