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Alvin Ashcraft
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Alvin Ashcraft

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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Introduction to parallelism

While exploring the history of threading in C# and .NET, we learned that parallelism was introduced to developers in .NET Framework 4.0. In this section, the aspects that will be explored are exposed in the TPL through the System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel class. In addition, we will cover some of the basics of PLINQ through examples. These data parallelism concepts will be covered in greater detail with real-world examples in Chapter 6, Chapter 7, and Chapter 8.

At a high level, parallelism is the concept of executing multiple tasks in parallel. These tasks could be related to one another, but this is not a requirement. In fact, related tasks running in parallel run a greater risk of encountering synchronization issues or blocking one another. For example, if your application loads order data from an orders service and user preferences and application state from an Azure blob store, these two processes can be run in parallel without having to worry about...

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Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer and developer community champion with over 25 years of experience in software development. Working primarily with Microsoft Windows, web, and cloud technologies, his career has focused primarily on the healthcare industry. He has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP 11 times, most recently as a Windows Dev MVP. Alvin works in the Philadelphia area for Allscripts, a global healthcare software company, as a principal software engineer. He is also a board member of the TechBash Foundation, where he helps organize the annual TechBash developer conference. He has previously worked for companies such as Oracle, Genzeon, CSC, and ITG Pathfinders. Originally from the Allentown, PA area, Alvin currently resides in West Grove, PA with his wife and three daughters.
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