Those are both solid choices for servers. However neither of them have a scalability model suitable for HTTP/2 or WebSockets. That's something I wanted to try and address.
I converted the streaming and Autopark clients in the Tesla API gem from EM to Async and has been great: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/blob/master/lib/tesla_a...
No more globals, which makes it much safer to use inside of threaded job runners like Sidekiq.
I outline some of the key improvements in this talk: