Concurrent Burgers — Understand async / await

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Intro

Modern versions of Python (and other languages) have support for “asynchronous code” using something called “coroutines”, with async and await syntax.

Here’s a friendly and not very technical explanation to give some intuition about all that, including asynchronous code, concurrency, and…