> The "threads are bad" cargo cult has often lead people to pursue "interesting" solutions to various concurrency problems in order to avoid using threads. I k

> The "threads are bad" cargo cult has often lead people to pursue "interesting" solutions to various concurrency problems in order to avoid using threads. I know. Redis and Memcached are definitely cargo cult programs. ;-) Seriously though, I'm not sure if I follow why it's a cargo cult. Evented programs, as the author knows, is a way to avoid I/O blocking. Sometimes it's not the right tool for the job, however I've been pretty happy learning the evented idioms. It helped me to more clearly think about client/server and web service communication. Maybe zealot would be more appropriate to cargo cult member?