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I think I'm in a similar situation with you, and asyncio has been great.

Not sure what libs you use, you'll probably need to switch libraries, it's not common for one lib to support both sync/async. I'm using aiohttp for http/websockets and asyncpg for postgres, running on uvloop as the base event loop.

Something which is trivial with asyncio: I receive 10 consecutive heavy websockets requests, I spawn a task to handle each one of them and they will be served back out of order as Postgres returns results. With no locking or messing with threads.

Another benefit is knowing for certain your code won't be interrupted unless you call "await", this simplifies a lot using shared state without requiring locks.