The development of Web services depends on several protocols. SOAP over HTTP is the messaging protocol predominantly used at the present time, and synchronous RPC is the predominant messaging pattern.

Several classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library (BCL) provide both synchronous and asynchronous method signatures. Because a synchronous method call can create a delay in program flow, an ...

There are performance benefits to using asynchronous services that Windows Communication Foundation 4.5 allows, and with that, one should know the differences between sync and async services as well ...

The Asynchronous Web is fundamentally different, and that difference revolutionizes how web applications behave. In the Asynchronous Web it is possible to deliver spontaneous presentation changes to ...

JSPI allows developers to craft WebAssembly applications using synchronous APIs and still participate in the web’s asynchronous ecosystem. JSPI is being developed on Intel and ARM64 architectures.

Previously, Django only supported WSGI, which only supported synchronous web applications. Django 3 will only allow async features to run in an app if it’s deployed as ASGI.