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async was controversial from its inception; it’s still controversial today; and in this post I am throwing my own 2 cents into this controversy, in defense of the feature. I am only going to try to counter one particular line of criticism here, and I don’t anticipate I’ll cover all the nuance of it – this is a multifaceted issue, and I have a day job. I am also going to assume for this post that you have some understanding of how async works, but if you don’t, or just want a refresher I heartily recommend the Tokio tutorial.

If you have ever written in Go, then the size of the resulting binaries could not escape your attention. Of course, in the age of gigabit links and terabyte drives, this shouldn’t be a big problem. Still, there are situations when you want the size of the binary to be as small as possible, and at the same time you do not want to part with Go.

Profiling is integral to any code and performance optimization. Any experience and skill in performance optimization that you might already have will not be very useful if you don't know where to apply it. Therefore, finding bottlenecks in your applications can help you solve performance issues quickly with very little overall effort.

In this article we will look at the tools and techniques that can help us narrow down our focus and find bottlenecks both for CPU and memory consumption, as well as how to implement easy (almost zero-effort) solutions to performance issues in cases where even well targeted code changes won't help anymore.