Asynchronous programming

Quite some people think asynchronous programming is mostly there for desktop applications like Windows Forms or WPF applications. They don’t think it’s worth the trouble to introduce async/await in web applications like MVC or WebAPI apps.
Also, there’s a lot of web application code that tries to leverage async/await, however, it is used in the wrong way. Sometimes in such a wrong way that it can even have a negative impact on the application’s overall performance.
This talk is about showing you why async/await should be used in web applications. It’s also about telling you some Dos and Don’ts you should consider when using async/await in web applications. Once you really understand what these two keywords do you will not find a good reason to not use them going forward. Especially in times where applications need to scale and where applications are deployed to pay-as-you-go environments like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. Just by leveraging async/await appropriately you can serve twice as many requests with the same infrastructure – and depending on your specific case you can benefit even more!

Speaker: Bernhard Baumgartner (Glass Lewis).

Agenda
6 pm - Greetings and food
6.30 pm - Session starts
7.45 pm - Wrap up and swag distribution
8 pm - Lights off