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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.

Asynchronous code (async code) says: go do something while I do other things, then let me know what happened when the results are ready. Also known as concurrency, async is important in a variety of ...

Understanding asynchronous programming is akin to unlocking a powerful toolset for building efficient and responsive web applications. Asynchronous programming is essential to modern JavaScript ...

You can take advantage of asynchronous programming to perform resource-intensive operations without having to block on executing thread of your application. This increases the throughput while at the ...

The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

Say that you're developing an tool that let's users customize it via JavaScript. Some of the common functions that will be called from the scripts are fundamentally asynchronous - they ultimately are ...