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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By : Shakti Tanwar
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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3

By: Shakti Tanwar

Overview of this book

In today’s world, every CPU has a multi-core processor. However, unless your application has implemented parallel programming, it will fail to utilize the hardware’s full processing capacity. This book will show you how to write modern software on the optimized and high-performing .NET Core 3 framework using C# 8. Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 covers how to build multithreaded, concurrent, and optimized applications that harness the power of multi-core processors. Once you’ve understood the fundamentals of threading and concurrency, you’ll gain insights into the data structure in .NET Core that supports parallelism. The book will then help you perform asynchronous programming in C# and diagnose and debug parallel code effectively. You’ll also get to grips with the new Kestrel server and understand the difference between the IIS and Kestrel operating models. Finally, you’ll learn best practices such as test-driven development, and run unit tests on your parallel code. By the end of the book, you’ll have developed a deep understanding of the core concepts of concurrency and asynchrony to create responsive applications that are not CPU-intensive.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Threading, Multitasking, and Asynchrony
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Section 2: Data Structures that Support Parallelism in .NET Core
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Section 3: Asynchronous Programming Using C#
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Section 4: Debugging, Diagnostics, and Unit Testing for Async Code
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Section 5: Parallel Programming Feature Additions to .NET Core

Distributed Memory Management

In the last two decades, the industry has seen a paradigm shift to big data and machine learning architectures that involve processing terabytes/petabytes of data as quickly as possible. As computing power became cheaper, there was a need to use multiple processors to speed up processing to a larger scale. This has led to distributed computing. Distributed computing refers to an arrangement of computer systems that are connected via some networking/distribution middleware. All the connected systems share resources and coordinate their activities via middleware so that they work in a way that is perceived as a single system by the end user. Distributed computing is needed due to the huge volume and throughput requirements of modern applications. Some typical examples of scenarios where computing demands cannot be fulfilled by a single system and that...