I've probably written a thousand C# functions that use the async - await pattern, and probably, so have you. But I have a confession: it wasn't until very recently that I really, truly understood what async - await is doing. Sure, I had a general sense. But I still felt like my mental model was incomplete, and I felt like, in some cases, async - await didn't seem all that different from regular, synchronous code. In this two-part video, I take you through my journey of coming to understand async - await at a deeper level.