Practical Python Async for Dummies

Grant Paton-Simpson
kiwi.pycon.org...
What's the point of faster computers if our code spends most of its time waiting for slower processes to complete. Shouldn't we be using asynchronous code to make lots of things happen simultaneously? Probably, but isn't that really tricky to do? The goal of this talk is to work through some very simple snippets of Python code that make common tasks much, much faster with minimal fuss.