async and await tell you?â, because it opens up an opportunity to have an interesting discussion with an interviewee⦠Or it doesnât because they float in this topic. In my opinion it is drastically important to understand why we use this technique. I have a feeling that many developers prefer to rely just on âit is the best practiceâ and blindly use asynchronous methods. This article shows the difference between asynchronous and synchronous methods in practice. Tools Azure Sql Database Azure App Insights (to gather metrics) locust framework (to simulate user load). Configuration Experiment schema I will run a benchmark in the following way. There are two independent locust instances running on two machines*. Locust instances simulate a user that does the following: