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The async and await keywords have been in JavaScript for some time now, with full support across all major browsers and Node. While a lot has been written on how to use them, they are still a mystery to many fresh JavaScript and Node developers.

This article aims to explain what async and await do and how they work, in simple terms, while not treating them as black magic.

This will be yet another exploratory series on my blog — this time around, I want to write a little about optimizing performance in Swift code. This is, of course, an endless topic so what I’m going to do is, similarly to previous posts, focus on a problem and then track my way through working on it.

Traffic proxying, the act of encapsulating one flow of data inside another, is a valuable privacy tool for establishing boundaries on the Internet.