Seems many commenters missed this statement. It's also troubling how common it is to hear assertions that async is king especially on projects where your future

Seems many commenters missed this statement. It's also troubling how common it is to hear assertions that async is king especially on projects where your future scale is unknown. Based on https://web.archive.org/web/20160203172420/https://www.mailinator.com/tymaPaulMultithreaded.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20160203172420/https://www.maili... presentation, it looks like there is a stronger case for a sync model as the default.