Modern software systems involve many asynchronous tasks, but reporting status on tasks is often handled poorly. An asynchronous task is one that processes in the background and allows the client or caller to work on something else in the meantime (“non-blocking”). Architecturally, asynchronous processing is often the right choice for operations and scaling reasons, but it does add complexity. Both the end-users and the operating teams will need to understand the state of the task and, if ...
