It's a troll article, but I'd like to point out that the "UNIX way" is alive and well in node.js. I spawn new processes to do heavy lifting (e.g. thumbnailing,

It's a troll article, but I'd like to point out that the "UNIX way" is alive and well in node.js. I spawn new processes to do heavy lifting (e.g. thumbnailing, hashing files) all the time. I put jobs into queues in redis and handle them in other node processes. Obviously in co-operative multitasking it's wrong to block the rest of the server.