As modern .NET applications grow increasingly reliant on concurrency to deliver responsive, scalable experiences, mastering asynchronous and parallel programming has become essential for every serious ...

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.

This episode looks at the async–await pattern and the hidden traps that come with it. A small, harmless line of code set off a slowdown that baffled everyone involved. As we dissect the sequence, the ...