The Journey from Problem to Solution: Introducing AsyncFlow

It was a typical Tuesday afternoon when Ahmed, an astute developer, faced a daunting challenge. The request-response paradigm that he had always relied on was suddenly insufficient. With a growing user base and an expanding application, long-running tasks became the bane of his existence.

Frequent timeouts, aggravated users, and sleepless nights were all Ahmed seemed to know. The pressure of scaling without compromising user experience was weighing him down.

One evening, Ahmed stumbled upon the Job-based Asynchronous Processing Pattern. This was a game-changer! This pattern could handle time-consuming tasks in the background, and users could check the task's status or retrieve the results at their leisure. It was the perfect solution Ahmed had been searching for.

However, implementing it was no walk in the park. He needed something that would simplify this pattern's integration into his application.

Enter AsyncFlow.

Ahmed found AsyncFlow, a library that brought the power of this pattern right into the .NET ecosystem. Built atop Hangfire's robust infrastructure, AsyncFlow made it a breeze for him to implement asynchronous task processing.

Setting it up was a walk in the park:

builder.Services.AddHangfire(x => x.UseMemoryStorage());
builder.Services.AddHangfireServer();
builder.Services.AddMemoryCache();
builder.Services.AddAsyncFlow(options => options.UseMemoryCache());

Ahmed just had to write his business logic, implement the IAsyncFlow interface, and voila, his endpoints were up and running:

builder.Services.AddTransient<GenerateDataJob>();
app.MapFlow<GenerateDataJob, GenerateDataRequest, GenerateDataResponse>("dataGeneration");

It didn't stop there. Ahmed was also able to leverage Hangfire's capabilities, including its insightful dashboard and exceptional load balancing.

Elated with his discovery, Ahmed felt the need to share this gem with the world. If you're facing challenges like Ahmed and seeking a seamless way to implement the Job-based Asynchronous Processing Pattern in .NET, give AsyncFlow a glance. And if it helps you as much as it did Ahmed, consider giving it a star!