Background Services in .NET — IHostedService and BackgroundService Explained

IHostedService, BackgroundService, Worker Service, scoped services in background, Hangfire comparison Not all work in a .NET application happens within an HTTP request. Scheduled jobs, message queue consumers, cache warmers, health check pollers — these all run in the background, independently of the request pipeline. IHostedService — The Foundation IHostedService tells the .NET host: "run this when the application starts, stop it when the application stops." public interface IHostedService { Ta