Your .NET BackgroundService can be running perfectly while your system is quietly failing. ⚠️
A healthy process doesn't always mean a healthy distributed system.
Build better background services with principles like:
⚡ Resilience
🔄 Reliable retries
🛡️ Idempotency
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🚨 Still sending Gmail emails from ASP.NET Core using a username + password?
There’s a more secure approach.
Use 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝟐.𝟎 + 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 + 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐊𝐢𝐭 to send emails without storing Gmail passwords.
Learn how to set it up