I too still don't understand 100% what's going on behind the scenes of node/V8 regarding threading/parallelism, but this post here helped me a lot to understand

I too still don't understand 100% what's going on behind the scenes of node/V8 regarding threading/parallelism, but this post here helped me a lot to understand it from a bird's eye perspective: http://debuggable.com/posts/understanding-node-js:4bd98440-45e4-4a9a-8ef7-0f7ecbdd56cb http://debuggable.com/posts/understanding-node-js:4bd98440-4... It's also linked from The Node Beginner Book.