Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Eleven years ago, researchers warned in the journal ...

Since the pandemic began, organizations have struggled to convert remote operations to a more sustainable model. A major contributing factor comes from a deep reliance on real-time, synchronous ...

Asynchronous communication has become a cornerstone of modern technology, enabling smoother, more efficient workflows, especially in distributed systems. Yet beneath the surface, these systems often ...

The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion—the ...

Asynchronous services are easier to implement with support of the await and async keywords in WCF 4.5. We look at that, as well as contract-first development. There are performance benefits to using ...

It has to make sense to leverage different ways of communicating with different people in different situations. While virtual communication is more efficient, in-person communication is more effective ...

Synchronous vs asynchronous replication: How do they differ with regard to the order of events during data writes? When comparing synchronous vs asynchronous replication, let’s take a scenario where a ...