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Published inFeb 2024
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ISBN-139781805127659
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Gabriel Baptista
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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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Implementing worker microservices with ASP.NET Core

In order to avoid blocking the caller’s synchronous request for too much time, an ASP.NET Core-based solution requires the implementation of an internal queue where it can store all received messages. This way, when a message is received, it is immediately enqueued without processing it, so that a “received” response can be immediately returned.

Therefore, the application level needs a repository interface that handles the queue. Here is a possible definition of this interface:

public interface IMessageQueue
{
    public Task<IList<QueueItem>> Top(int n);
    public Task Dequeue(IEnumerable<QueueItem> items);
    public Task Enqueue(QueueItem item);
}

Where:

  • QueueItem is a class that contains all request information
  • Enqueue adds a new message to the queue
  • Top returns the first n queue items without removing them from the queue
  • Dequeue removes the first...
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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
Read more about Francesco Abbruzzese