Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

Chances are you don’t like wasting time in useless meetings. People often say “this meeting should have been an email.” But what about one-to-one calls? Could they be a series of voice messages and ...

Here's some pseudocode I want to use when the user clicks my deleteCustomer button: check that the user really wants to delete the customer ... AJAX call to retrieve Customer object .onsuccess (AJAX ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two new approach to async system calls offer different advantages: one would be low-overhead, the other would allow chaining calls without returning to userspace Since the writing of last week’s ...

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.

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I keep hitting a code pattern in javascript that I'm having trouble writing in a readable, non-ugly pattern. (FWIW, I'm just transitioning back to javascript after being away. I might be missing a ...

I have a stored procedure within MS SQL which runs a program. I would like to, from within SQL, call this stored procedure a few hundred times but I do not want to wait for instance 1 to finish before ...