It has been long enough that C10K is not in common software engineer vernacular anymore. There was a time when people did not trust async anything. This was als

It has been long enough that C10K is not in common software engineer vernacular anymore. There was a time when people did not trust async anything. This was also a time when PHP was much more dominant on the web, async database drivers were rare and unreliable, and you had to roll your own thread pools.