> Have I understood correctly that author implies that webapp and DB are running on one server? But that's usually just not the case! no. Please see the benc

> Have I understood correctly that author implies that webapp and DB are running on one server? But that's usually just not the case! no. Please see the benchmark suite where I ran the async/threaded performance tests both on the same machine as well as on different machines. As for the PyMySQL example, I can assure you, running it on the same machine, different machines, whatever, you'll see something very similar as far as that Python profiling result.