A guide to building a fluent API in C# for awaiting multiple asynchronous calls and retrieving their results in a strongly-typed, elegant manner.
Explains the misconception that Tasks in C# are for multithreading, clarifying they represent asynchronous operations, not threads, and are not primarily for performance.
Explains how to use the Task Parallel Library (TPL) in .NET to process collections faster by implementing data parallelism.
Explains techniques for reliably awaiting all tasks in a .NET application, using the Pulumi SDK's asynchronous model as an example.
Explains the Producer-Consumer pattern for asynchronous services, including a C# implementation using TPL Dataflow.
Explains how to use CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource in C# to combine multiple cancellation sources for async operations.
Explains how to use Reactive Extensions (Rx) to await Observables, converting event-based async patterns into simpler, awaitable tasks in C#.
Explains the use of ConfigureAwait(false) in C# async programming to improve performance by avoiding unnecessary UI thread marshaling.
