In general especially when it comes to libraries or console apps, in order to fire and forget an async method, is it better to just call the async method without awaiting it or use Task.Run? Basica...

I have written an API that makes DB calls and does some business logic. I am invoking a goroutine that must perform some operation in the background. Since the API call should not wait for this bac...

I have a long-running synchronous Python program, where I'd like to run ~10 "fire and forget" tasks every second. These tasks hit a remote API and do not need to return any value. I tried...

Waiting for a non-essential metrics to be sent makes no sense to me, as it adds latency (waiting for the server's response) on each call to the back-end dotnet core service, which might happe...

I'm trying to create a fire and forget method in PHP so that I can POST data to a web server and not have wait for a response. I read that this could be achieved by using CURL like in the following...

I really like this question: Simplest way to do a fire and forget method in C#? I just want to know that now that we have Parallel extensions in C# 4.0 is there a better cleaner way to do Fire &a...

I'm working on a Web API project which uses Azure's managed cache service to cache database results in memory to improve response times and alleviate duplicate traffic to the database. When attempt...

Using Autofac in ASP.NET along with the ContainerDisposalModule, how can i support fire and forget calls that have component dependencies that need to be resolved? The problem I'm running into is t...

I have an async method: public async Task DoSomethingAsync(){ ... await ... await ... .... return await SaveAsync(); } In most time, I call this method by: await DoSomethingAsync() This ...

How to go about implementing a "fire and forget" behavior with java.util.concurrency? I tried: ExecutorService executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor(); public void push(Callable<Boolean...

The below text is an effort to expand and add color to this question: How do I prevent a misbehaving client from taking down the entire service? I have essentially this scenario: a WCF service is...

I'm doing a queued jobs and at the end of each job I want to fire an SP which will do a lot of processing on data. So I don't want to wait for completion of the SP and I just want to move to next j...

Can somebody please tell me how to fire-and-forget a process in Perl? I've already looked at ruby: how to fire and forget a subprocess? for doing the same in Ruby.