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A Small ASP.NET Core Improvement That Can Save Big Server Resources: CancellationToken
During a recent review of our ASP.NET Core APIs, we noticed something that many teams—including ours—often overlook: we weren't passing CancellationToken through our API, service, and repository layers.
The application was working correctly. There were no errors, no failed requests, and nothing obviously broken.
However, from a scalability and resource-management perspective, there was room for improvement.
