Questions tagged [asynchronous-programming]
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Gevent - Make blocking calls non-blocking
I have the blocking code shown below.
Is calling monkey.patch_all() enough/optimal to make it non-blocking?
Does Gevent handle iterations like these?
# front page
def front_page():
database = ...
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Callback pattern handling exceptions - Best practices in .NET 3.5
I am looking to implement the callback pattern with error handling such that error is caught and pass to the callback code with the response. Since I am using .NET 3.5, I cant use Task (TAP) pattern ...
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How to structure your Python code with asynchronous and synchronous parts
I have a Python FastAPI server application which naturally guides you towards the asynchronous paradigm.
For legacy reasons, I have to support two backends, one which is purely synchronous and one ...
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If you run a function in a different thread, but you wait for it to finish in your main thread, is that function asynchronous?
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Probably a stupid question, but I just have a sneaking suspicion that "asynchronous" is the wrong terminology to us for naming my template function here:
template <class T>
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Using TPL to manage hundreds of contexts
Overview of application:
A chat bot that connects via IRC, using TPL. As messages come from the socket (from .ReadAsync()), they are ultimately parsed and passed to a handler within the bot itself (...
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Capturing keyboard events for a limited time
I'm trying to code a kind of simple video game where there are two kind of players:
Human Players: They enter an keyboard input
CPU Players: A random input is calculated
For Human Players there is a T ...
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How to display a very delayed success message after async method call in WinForms after Form is closed
The users are on a Windows Form where they fill out a fax cover sheet and hit Send. The remote fax service takes anywhere from two seconds to two minutes to return a result (long timeout). By that ...
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Is Windows Workflow Foundation appropriate for a CPU-heavy async application?
At one of the DevDays conferences a presenter said that Workflow Foundation isn't just for applications that require persistence, but they can make it easier to write and maintain Async WCF code and ...
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How to handle multi-region writes for a joint user registration?
UserA and UserB are signing up for some joint service together. They both have to independently agree to T&Cs before sign-up is complete. Once complete they both receive an email to sign-in.
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Handling error with Promise
I'm writing a small application in TypeScript that has to do some asynchronous operation and I'm doing it with Promise and async/await sugar. But my problem do not rely on the particular language or ...
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Is async/await a good alternative for locks in JavaScript?
Yes, I know, the question title is a bit provocatory. But let me explain.
I needed to execute a sequence of async tasks in JavaScript. They are async because I need them to be non-blocking, but I ...
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How to name functions which continue a process after an asynchronous step
Say that you have an web application which prints pages in a document. Suppose that after validating the page range, the application does the following:
If a billing option is turned on, it first ...
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Designing an application with safe paralleled tasking
The title may have been a little vague... I am working on a piece of software that is designed to perform one task. I would like this task to work in parallel, allowing for multiple asynchronous ...
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What is a right way to handle requests?
A social network has API, but also it has some limitations like the amount of requests that can be done in one second (let's say API will give an error, if it accepts more than 3 requests per second)
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