Async & Await in C#: Understand Tasks, avoid deadlocks, and ship reliable APIs

Async & Await in C#: A Developer’s Journey isn’t just a syntax guide — it’s a story about how one developer learned to stop blocking threads and start thinking asynchronously.

This ebook takes you deep into the async model of .NET, mixing real-world bugs, performance lessons, and code patterns you can apply today.

Inside you’ll learn:

• 🔄 How async/await works behind the scenes in .NET 8/10
• ⚙️ Common pitfalls — deadlocks, blocking calls, context capture, task leaks
• 🧠 When to use ValueTask, ConfigureAwait(false), and async streams
• 🚀 Async in ASP.NET Core, Minimal APIs, EF Core, and HttpClient
• 🧩 Debugging async code — call stacks, breakpoints, and task tracking
• 💡 Patterns for scalability and cleaner architecture

Each chapter ends with a real scenario, working code, and what went wrong — so you’ll understand async programming not just theoretically, but the way it’s used in production.

Perfect for:

• C# developers learning modern async patterns
• Teams migrating to .NET 8/10
• Engineers building APIs, microservices, or UI apps that need true concurrency