Just a note for anyone interested in what was mentioned in the article but more comfortable with JavaScript. There is mori http://swannodette.github.io/mori/#m

Just a note for anyone interested in what was mentioned in the article but more comfortable with JavaScript. There is mori http://swannodette.github.io/mori/#mori http://swannodette.github.io/mori/#mori for persistent data structures. Callbacks are handled by Promises or say async https://github.com/caolan/async https://github.com/caolan/async For heavy compute tasks you can launch child processes under Node.js and communicate with one management process, the Cluster http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html lib is experimental as of now.