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2. Reducing initial request latency by pre-building services in a startup task in ASP.NET Core

   In this post I show a startup task that pre-builds all the services registered in the DI container to reduce the duration of the first request to the app.…

   February 05, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection
3. Using health checks to run async tasks in ASP.NET Core
   Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 4

   In this post I describe an approach to running tasks on startup that uses IHostedService to run the tasks and exposes their status using health checks…

   January 29, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration Health Checks
4. Feedback on async task examples and another possible solution
   Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 3

   In this post I discuss some feedback on my previous posts about running async tasks on startup, including why database migrations were a poor example…

   January 22, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
5. Two approaches for running async tasks
   Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 2

   In this post I show two approaches for running tasks asynchronously on app startup. Both approach allow registering tasks using DI, but have different trade…

   January 15, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
6. Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core

   In this series I look at the problem of running one-off tasks asynchronously on app startup in ASP.NET Core. I explore the options and discuss pros and cons…

   January 08, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration
7. Built in options for running async tasks
   Running async tasks on app startup in ASP.NET Core - Part 1

   In this post I look at the problem of running one-off tasks asynchronously on app startup in ASP.NET Core. I explore the options and discuss pros and cons…

   January 08, 2019 in ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Configuration