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Module 09 · Concurrency in design · Lesson 5 of 5

Async and futures

TODO: one-sentence summary of Async and futures.

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Why it matters

Explain the problem async and futures addresses and where it shows up in real code.

The idea

The core mechanism, with one diagram.

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