Why Async and Await in .NET Often Hurt Performance When Misused

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Async and await changed how .NET developers write scalable code. A method that once blocked a thread while waiting on a database or an HTTP call can now release that thread and resume later. Used well, this lets a small thread pool serve thousands of concurrent requests. Used badly, it produces slower, hungrier, and harder to debug applications than the synchronous code it replaced. The problem...

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