Mastering C# Concurrency

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about server applications and how they are different. We have looked at scalability and understood why it is very important for a server application to be able to scale well. We have created an OWIN Web API application and learned to host it in an IIS web server and in a separate process. We have used Visual Studio to create load tests for our server application, checked what happens when we use good and poorly written asynchronous code, and leveraged the Apache bench command line tool to run benchmarks without Visual Studio.

We also have reviewed in detail what an I/O thread and an I/O completion port are, and found out reasons why using an asynchronous I/O is the key to building scalable server applications. ...