Ok, so it's basically the standard web-worker model. If you haven't yet, I would suggest looking at Mojolicious. It has an amazingly convenient system for websockets, and is built around an event loop. When paired with Mojo::Pg, you can implement an entire web worker with non-blocking calls very conveniently. It's not quite as convenient as async/await keywords, but the way it works the callbacks into "events of objects" is almost as nice.

I did a review of all the async solutions for websockets a few years ago in my YAPC talk "The Wide World of Websockets". I wasn't using a database for any of those, but implemented a simple chat server in each perl library and Mojo seemed like the clear winner. Meanwhile, the multiplayer Asteroids demo is still live on https://nrdvana.net/asteroids. (it's only half-implemented and a little buggy, but shows the possibilities pretty well. Click 'reconnect' however many times it takes...)

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