Asynchronous programming helps you to improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your application. In this article we will explore the basics of asynchronous programming and write code to ...

I once cut the average response time for an application from more than four seconds to less than two. In another case, I reduced the runtime of a batch application from seven hours to 45 minutes. In a ...

Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database ...