Why does the EF 6 tutorial use asynchronous calls?

Question

The latest EF tutorial that goes through how to use EF 6 with MVC 5 seems to lean towards using asych calls to the database like:

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Answer 1

On ASP.NET, you should use asynchronous APIs for anything I/O-related, including database access and web service calls.

Using async allows ASP.NET to make maximum use of the thread pool, resulting in non-trivial scalability benefits.