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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Rise of Node

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm only going to say that, based on what I've read online, one reason
they chose Node is because it scales very well.


People can get the wrong impression from others who assert that Node.js
scales well. The programmers who wrote Node.js affirm that Node's
scalability is in reference to the efficiency of handling many sockets in a
single thread, vs other HTTP servers that launch a separate thread for each
socket. Frankly, Node doesn't scale well in the traditional sense. And as
Tim Fathers pointed out there are advantages to launching a separate thread
per socket. And Node's scalability assertions are a red herring.

Even though Node.js doesn't scale well, shops can always fall back to
building their own scalable systems by deploying many Node instances across
server farms and using load balancers as the number of users grows.

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