[bob1029]

I'm trying to find the actual value-add here. This feels like TPL but with more steps.

Why do we need to serialize the jobs through a Channel<T>? Couldn't we just do Task.Run and let the runtime take care of scheduling our work?

[rafaelmn]

You have no control over concurrency/scheduling, have to manage scoping, error handling, etc. TPL/Threads add to much low level noise to the logic.

Like you could easily blow up the thread pool depending on what you are doing, where a channel based implementation would just deal with spillover and not affect the other threads. You can easily capture scoped services that are disposed by the time the thread executes - but you never catch it in dev because you get executed immediately and request takes long enough, etc.

Spawning threads will work but I can see the use in a small abstraction like this lib for sure. Not sure I would use a lib for this - would probably hand roll something since I don't like adding unvetted external deps by default.

[mikasjp]

This is exactly why I built BusyBee. My team found ourselves hand‑rolling something similar almost every time we started a new project. If we kept needing it, I figured there are probably more people in the same situation. So instead of duplicating the same background queue logic across multiple codebases, I decided to build it once, add proper OpenTelemetry support, and keep it simple without extra bloat. That way we can just reuse it and reduce the amount of similar code we have to maintain.

[bob1029]

> You have no control over concurrency/scheduling

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threadin...

[rafaelmn]

I don't get what you are trying to say - are you going to create a task scheduler/thread pool as a singleton for background jobs ?

[fabian2k]

Channels are a built-in feature from Microsoft, and they do all the hard work here.

[rafaelmn]

Yeah thats what I am saying - I would just hand roll my background worker with channels probably

[lloydatkinson]

I wish TPL Dataflow was more known.

[pjmlp]

Not only, most people really aren't aware of all batteries that come with .NET, and Java, more so than Python or Go.