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"Even with the rise of cloud computing, the world still revolves around servers. That won't last, though. Cloud apps are moving into a serverless world, and that will big implications for the creation and distribution of software and applications."

"Asynchrony is essential  for scalability and performance on the server side. Although it has always been possible to write asynchronous code, there has, up to now, been a downside: it is difficult to understand and maintain. Now, with the async/await. keywords, the whole approach is radically simplified for the programmer."

TechEd Europe 2012: great talk about SignalR, the lightweight messaging system that allows you to have a real-time connections between clients or between the client and the server. Imagine visiting a web page and having everything you do appear instantaneously in the browsers of all other users that are visiting that page. Think chat clients, collaborative editing, etc.