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A thread is the smallest unit of execution within a process. A thread pool comprises of a number of threads, or, a collection of threads to be precise, and it can be used to perform several activities ...

Building a web application using non blocking calls to the data layer is a great way to increase the scalability of your system. Performing a task asynchronously frees up the worker thread to accept ...