Async Task

Definitions

1. A unit of work scheduled to run asynchronously rather than immediately inline with the caller. Async tasks are common in job systems, event loops, UI frameworks, and backend services that need to do non-blocking or deferred work.

   In plain English: A piece of work scheduled to run later or concurrently rather than immediately in place.

   Example: "Sending the webhook became an async task so checkout completion no longer depended on the partner service responding quickly."

Related Terms

• Coroutine
• Event Loop
• Future
• Sync
• Timer
• Async Function
• Async Lock
• Async Pattern
• Async Pool
• Background Task
• Callback Function
• Communication Channel