Background Services in ASP.NET Core Rationale Background services are essential for offloading work from the request pipeline, processing queues, and handling scheduled tasks. Poorly implemented background services can lead to data loss, orphaned jobs, and resource leaks. These patterns ensure reliable, observable, and gracefully degrading background processing in production applications. --- BackgroundService vs IHostedService | Feature | | | |---------|-------------------|-----------------| | Purpose | Long-running loop or continuous work | Startup/shutdown hooks | | Methods | Override | Im…