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Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and its differences from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing.

Patrick and Jason explain asynchronous programming and how it differs from traditional multithreading and multiprocessing. They cover coroutines, blocking versus non-blocking operations, promises, callbacks, async/await, and the tradeoffs behind each approach.

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