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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By : Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance

By: Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

Overview of this book

While writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance tuning for realworld applications often involves activities geared toward fnding bottlenecks; however, this cannot solve the dreaded problem of slower code. If you want to improve the speed of your code and optimize an application's performance, then this book is for you. C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance begins with an introduction to the new features of what?explaining how they help in improving an application's performance. Learn to identify the bottlenecks in writing programs and highlight common performance pitfalls, and learn strategies to detect and resolve these issues early. You will explore multithreading and asynchronous programming with .NET Core and learn the importance and effcient use of data structures. This is followed with memory management techniques and design guidelines to increase an application’s performance. Gradually, the book will show you the importance of microservices architecture for building highly performant applications and implementing resiliency and security in .NET Core. After reading this book, you will learn how to structure and build scalable, optimized, and robust applications in C#7 and .NET.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Designing Guidelines for .NET Core Application Performance

Multithreading versus asynchronous programming

Multithreading and asynchronous programming, if properly implemented, improve the performance of an application. Multithreading refers to the practice of executing multiple threads at the same time to execute multiple operations or tasks in parallel. There could be one main thread and several background threads, usually known as worker threads, running in parallel at the same time, executing multiple tasks concurrently, whereas both synchronous and asynchronous operations can run on a single-threaded or a multithreaded environment.

In a single-threaded synchronous operation, there is only one thread that performs all the tasks in a defined sequence, and it executes them one after the other. In a single-threaded asynchronous operation, there is only one thread that executes the tasks, but it allocates a time slice in which to run each...