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When doing single-threaded asynchronous programming, there are two main techniques that I'm familiar with. The most common one is using callbacks. That means passing to the function that acts ...
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Are events only used for GUI programming? How do you handle in normal backend programming when something happens to this other thing?
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Python added the async/await constructs in 3.5 in 2015. The Javascript community made steps towards it for a bazzillion years and finally added a very similar implementation to the draft in ES8 ...
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Stumbled upon this post that talks about making async web requests. Now simplicity aside, if in real world, all you do is make an async request and wait for it in the very next line, isn't that the ...
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I have not found many resources about this: I was wondering if it's possible/a good idea to be able to write asynchronous code in a synchronous way. For example, here is some JavaScript code which ...
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I have been doing web-based Javascript (vanilla JS, jQuery, Backbone, etc.) for a few years now, and recently I've been doing some work with Node.js. It took me a while to get the hang of "non-...
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I've been doing a lot of reading online trying to figure out how to write asynchronous JavaScript code. One of the techniques that has come up a lot in my research is to use callbacks. While I ...
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I have few async REST services which are not dependent on each other. That is while "awaiting" a response from Service1, I can call Service2, Service3 and so on. For example, refer below code: var ...
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I spent the last week deep diving into the Akka docs and finally understand what actor systems are, and the problems that they solve. My understanding (and experience with) traditional JMS/AMQP ...
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I don't understand why I keep seeing async/await recommended (or sometimes, even enforced) for ASP.NET Core web applications and APIs. As far as I can tell, every request is already being run on a ...
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Asynchronous non-blocking event driven programming seems to be all the rage. I have a basic conceptual understanding of what this all means. However what I'm not sure is when and where my code can ...
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I have a bunch of microservices whose functionality I expose through a REST API according to the API Gateway pattern. As these microservices are Spring Boot applications, I am using Spring AMQP to ...
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I'm learning NodeJS and just wanted to clarify something. In several introductory tutorials and books so far, very early on they've described Node's "non-blocking" architecture - or rather that it's ...
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I'm a long time Java developer, but with so little traffic on SE, I don't limit my viewing to any single tags. I've noticed that C# questions with async/await come up a lot, and as far as I've read it'...
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Lately I can't seem to get enough of the amazing async-await pattern of C# 5.0. Where have you been all my life? I'm absolutely thrilled with the simple syntax, but I'm having one small difficulty. ...
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