SqlAlchemy 1.4 now supports asyncio, which means that it will be async all the way down to the last turtle. This is a great improvement for those who have been using SqlAlchemy with Tornado and have had to resort to a ThreadPoolExecutor to make queries run in parallel. With this support, there is no more need for that. The work they have done is truly spectacular and the possibilities it brings are sure to be exciting for developers. Read more about it in this article by Peter Bunyan in Better Programming.
