Asynchronous Programming — Part 1

Programming Models

In single threaded synchronous model, all tasks coming to the thread gets executed one task at a time. For example, in a traditional single threaded server, any request coming into the server get executed first before processing new requests.

This is the simplest style of programming. Each task is performed one at a time, with one finishing completely before another is started. And if the tasks are always performed in a definite order, the implementation of a later task can assume that all earlier tasks have…