Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3: Build solid enterprise software using task parallelism and multithreading

Book Description
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.

What you will learn
Analyze and break down a problem statement for parallelism
Explore the APM and EAP patterns and how to move legacy code to Task
Apply reduction techniques to get aggregated results
Create PLINQ queries and study the factors that impact their performance
Solve concurrency problems caused by producer-consumer race conditions
Discover the synchronization primitives available in .NET Core
Understand how the threading model works with IIS and Kestrel
Find out how you can make the most of server resources
Who this book is for
If you want to learn how task parallelism is used to build robust and scalable enterprise architecture, this book is for you. Whether you are a beginner to parallelism in C# or an experienced architect, you’ll find this book useful to gain insights into the different threading models supported in .NET Standard and .NET Core. Prior knowledge of C# is required to understand the concepts covered in this book.

Table of Contents
Introduction to Parallel Programming
Task Parallelism
Data Parallelism
Using PLINQ
Synchronization Primitives
Using Concurrent Collections
Improving Performance with Lazy
Introduction to Asynchronous Programming
Async, Await and Task Based Asynchronous programming basics
Debugging Tasks using Visual Studio
Writing Unit Test cases for Parallel and Asynchronous code
IIS and Kestrel in Asp.net Core
Patterns in Parallel Programming
Distributed memory management