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You're spot on. I think a lot of people can't wrap their head around node: It's all about scaling horizontally (lots of processes, many servers) rather than ver
by chubs 15y ago
You're spot on. I think a lot of people can't wrap their head around node: It's all about scaling horizontally (lots of processes, many servers) rather than vertically (one process with lots of threads on one big server). Once you realise that, it makes a lot of sense.
- ww520 15y agoExactly. I pick Node.js not because one process can handle lots of connections, but because one process can handle lots of connections with low resource utilization. It needs less servers to get the job done. It's more of a cost-based decision.