The Asynchronous Age: A Developer's Illustrated Primer

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As distributed systems become more complex, we are discovering new development patterns that help us create and maintain these distributed systems, and the most significant pattern of the last ten years has been the widespread adoption of asynchronous programming. From continuation passing, to JavaScript callbacks, to ES6 promises and the async/await operators in C# and .NET, most of our day-to-day development languages now have first-class support for asynchronous programming patterns - and if you've not worked with them before, you can find the learning curve a little daunting.

In this workshop we'll discuss the origins and applications of asynchronous programming, and how it relates to underlying concepts like OS threads and parallel computation. We'll look at how the asynchronous features of various development platforms have evolved, from modules to libraries to language keywords, and we'll look at how - and when - you can apply these patterns in your own projects to deliver responsive applications and great user experience even when your app is spending 90% of its time waiting for responses from external services.

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