VacExcHndlrs: Web Servers Under-the-Hood

We all use web-sites served by Apache, nginx, etc without a lot of thought. We expand our Python reach by using frameworks such as Flask and FastAPI.
How does all this work?
Come on a tour of what's happening under-the-hood, with code illustrations and the opportunity to assess the pros and cons of various choices: from a plain, synchronous server for static HTML files, to an async/concurrent model, and finally to look at a routing abstraction.
It is simpler than it looks. It is also more subtle than it looks! Through a series of short demonstrations, Michael will demystify what a web-server is actually doing, what problems the frameworks are solving, and what choices exist along the way.