Concurrency in .NET: Modern patterns of concurrent and parallel programming

Description

The multicore processor revolution has begun. Parallel computation is powerful and increasingly accessible and multicore computation is incorporated into all sorts of applications, including finance software, video games, web applications, machine-learning, and market analysis. To get the best performance, your application has to partition and divide processing to take full advantage of multicore processors. Functional languages help developers support concurrency by encouraging immutable data structures that can be passed between threads without having to worry about a shared state, all while avoiding side effects. Functional Concurrency in .NET teaches you how to build concurrent and scalable programs in .NET using the functional paradigm. This intermediate-level guide is aimed at developers, architects, and passionate computer programmers who are interested in writing code with improved speed and effectiveness by adopting a declarative and pain-free programming style. You'll start by learning the foundations of concurrency and important functional techniques and paradigms used in the rest of the book. Then you'll dive in to concurrent and parallel programming designs, emphasizing the functional paradigm with both theory and practice with lots of code samples. The third part of the book covers a real "cradle to grave" application implementation, covering the techniques and skills learned during the book.