You can take advantage of asynchrony to perform resource-intensive I/O operations sans the need to block the main or the executing thread of the application. Asynchrony when used properly can increase ...

Kotlin coroutines are still in the experimental phase, but they are quickly becoming one of the most popular features for developers that want to use asynchronous programming methods. Most mobile apps ...

Take advantage of the async methods in Dapper to improve the scalability and performance of your ASP.NET Core applications. Dapper is an easy to use, lightweight, flexible, fast, and open source ...

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Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

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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.

Make a system call now, get the result later: a proposed kernel patch expands the possibilities for asynchronous I/O. The kernel’s support for asynchronous I/O is incomplete, and it always has been.

I've been reading up on async/await somewhat but there are still things I don't get. I have experience writing socket servers with the Begin/End pattern, but I find some of this async/await confusing.