Asynchronous

This is an update to an earlier post on caching Tasks and only executing them when first accessed. This version uses Lazy<Task> to hold the Task.

By default, the Confluent Kafka client consumes one message at time, but with a bit of work it can consume batches of messages.

Caches are usually used to store concrete values, but with C# you can store tasks for work you want to perform only once, at the time the key is first requested from the cache.

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

The Consume method of the Kafka Confluent library for C# is synchronous, this post shows you how to use it in a non-blocking way.

This post shows you how to use a synchronous call in a background service without blocking the application or other background services.

When sending a cancellation request to a method that returns a value, you must return a value or throw an exception. Here is how to throw the exception.

Here is an example of using a cancellation token to stop the execution of a method.

Priority queues are new to .NET 6. Here is a simple example using them to “schedule” async tasks.