Yeah the post conflates asynchronous and concurrent like people always do. Asynchronous code can be executed sequentially, people. (Synchronous code can be exec

Yeah the post conflates asynchronous and concurrent like people always do. Asynchronous code can be executed sequentially, people. (Synchronous code can be executed concurrently, too.) Asynchronous code is absolutely not just for running tasks after returning an HTTP response. A good example of the true power of asynchronous execution would be to do a Web Socket handler _inside a Django view._