^ this, but be aware that it's only worth it if you do > 1 external call in parallel. I.E this is pointless:
res = await get('https://somesite.com')
return Response(res['data'])
As you'd get the same thing if you just did it synchronously (without the await). But if you want to fetch 2 or more pages in parallel when it really pays off.
Yeah, absolutely. I am not a fan of mixing synchronous and asynchronous code, but the design of asyncio makes it very easy to do. I think that most people struggling with the concept don't realize that asyncio is inherently blocking when its being used (well, with the caveat of run_in_executor, but that's best left ignored for the purposes here)
