Chapter 13. Working with asynchronous computations
This chapter covers
- Using Task to represent asynchronous computations
- Composing asynchronous operations sequentially and in parallel
- Traversables: handling lists of elevated types
- Combining the effects of different monads
In today’s world of distributed applications, many operations are performed asynchronously. A program may begin some operation that takes a relatively long time, such as requesting data from another application, but it won’t sit idle, waiting for that operation to complete. Instead, it will go on to do other work and resume the operation once the data has been received.
Asynchrony certainly is the bread and butter of today’s programmer. I waited until this late in the ...
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