Yes, I don't disagree with rjbwork. I may have read the article a bit differently, it sounded like "don't bother too much with async, it's slower, even for rea

Yes, I don't disagree with rjbwork. I may have read the article a bit differently, it sounded like "don't bother too much with async, it's slower, even for realistic web servers". In your I/O-bound Node.js server, if you would exchange all async calls with synchronous ones, your performance would get a big hit.