
Caffeinating Your Backend: How Async Programming Keeps Services Perky
Picture this: You’re running a coffee shop where every customer must wait in a single-file line. The barista meticulously completes each order before taking the next. Suddenly, Karen orders a pour-over with exacting temperature specifications. The line grows. Panic ensues. This, my friends, is synchronous programming in a nutshell - and exactly why we need asynchronous java…err, espresso. Brewing Concurrent Requests Without Spilling Modern backend systems are more like a team of baristas with walkie-talkies....