Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...

There's a lot of confusion about async/await, Task/TPL and asynchronous and parallel programming in general, so Jeremy Clark is on a mission to inform developers on how to use everything properly.

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Back in early 2012, when the TechCrunch developer team (Nicolas Vincent, Alex Khadiwala, Eric Mann, and John Bloch) started working on the TechCrunch redesign, one of the main goals was to improve ...

Structured concurrency offers a more organized and more intuitive way of managing the lifetimes of asynchronous tasks. Here’s how to take advantage of it in C#. Modern programming languages such as C# ...

Learn how to use asynchronous programming in Python 3.13 and higher. Get more done in less time, without waiting. Asynchronous programming, or async, is a feature of many modern languages that allows ...

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