Async Runtime - CI/CD Glossary Definition
An async runtime (Tokio, libuv, Node’s event loop) is the machinery that polls and schedules suspended async tasks onto worker threads and integrates non-blocking I/O and timers, supplying the execution context that async/await code requires to run.
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