Async Stream

Definitions

1. A sequence of values or chunks produced and consumed asynchronously over time rather than all at once. Async streams are used for large data processing, network responses, event feeds, and incremental pipelines where consumers can await each next item as it arrives.

   In plain English: A stream of data that becomes available gradually and is consumed asynchronously.

   Example: "The export endpoint returned an async stream so large result sets could be processed progressively without loading everything into RAM first."

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