Amin Alhassan
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Notes, explorations, and things I figured out the hard way.

Systems Mar 2025
Python async/await: when it helps and when it doesn't
Async Python is not faster Python. It's concurrent Python — which is very different. Here's the mental model, the pitfalls, and the cases where you should just use threads instead.
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