Both concurrency and distributed programming have the same roots in early computer science. In those early days, problems were often modelled from an asynchronous perspective.

One of the hardest tricks for any programmer to do is to master concurrent programming. Facebook's new tool, RacerD, goes a long way to helping developers spot concurrency errors.

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of ...

Programming with the JDK concurrency API is quite difficult, there are way too many opportunities to go wrong. In a way, we can view it as a low level API, but to be effective, we need higher ...

From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

Functional Programming has been around for quit e some time. Its characteristic features include high order functions, lazy evaluation, side-effect freeness, etc. These characteristics are ...

Swift 6 programming language focuses on concurrency, Linux and Windows In addition to language enhancements, the programming language brings improvements for connecting platforms beyond Apple's ...

Asynchronous and concurrent programming can quickly get complicated. So we asked Microsoft MVP Jason Bock, who's speaking on this topic at the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Boston conference in June, ...