Introduction
Explore the fundamentals of asynchronous programming in C# to understand how concurrency enables multiple tasks to run efficiently on single or multiple threads. This lesson uses practical analogies and examples to illustrate asynchrony, parallelism, and the benefits of event-loop designs commonly used in web servers. Gain insight into C# asynchronous patterns and their significance in improving system throughput without speeding up computation.
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Introduction
In this part of the course, we'll explain the motivation for and the basics of asynchronous programming in C#. Treat it like a gist or summary on the subject and not an in-depth tutorial. After completing this section, you should have a fair grasp of how asynchronous programming works in C# minus the minutiae.
Concurrency can be defined as dealing with multiple things at once. You can concurrently run several processes or threads on a machine with a single CPU but you'll not be parallel when doing so. Concurrency allows us to create an illusion of parallel execution even though the single CPU machine runs one thread or process at a time.
Parallelism is ...