http-kit

I'm wondering if it's possible to put together a fully non-blocking Clojure backend web application with http-kit. (Actually any Ring-compatible http server would be fine by me; I'm mentioning http-kit because it claims to have an event-driven, non-blocking model). EDIT: TL;DR This question is a symptom of some misconceptions I had about the nature of non-blocking/asynchronous/event-driven systems. In case you're in the same place as I was, here are some clarifications. Making an event-driven system with the performance benefits of it being non-blocking (like in Node.js) is possible only if