"Automatic asynchronicity[sic]"?! Node and all async io is cooperative multi-tasking, the opposite of automatic. The node event loop is a thin wrapper around th

"Automatic asynchronicity[sic]"?! Node and all async io is cooperative multi-tasking, the opposite of automatic. The node event loop is a thin wrapper around the epoll() system-call (or one of its equivalents), and leaves the details of multi-tasking to the app developer. It's no wonder you weren't able to scale under node if you thought something was happening automatically for you!