stellal

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   by stellal 15y ago

   Absolutely agreed on the hype, btw - When something gets a lot of hype I generally look at it sideways, node included.
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   by stellal 15y ago

   I can certainly see your point, and I am aware that I am playing a little fast and loose with some of the terminology around blocking vs non-blocking. To be precise, in node's case, it presents a consistent, callback based API to non-block
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   by stellal 15y ago

   Very good points. I wrote the article and have struggled a lot with how right node is as a general purpose tool. My interim conclusion, for many of the reasons you point out, is that to the extent that it can be made relatively safe, it
4. 4.▲
   by stellal 15y ago

   That was embarrassing. I do know how to craft a good apache config, and am just going to claim a case of being stupid. It is ironic that node is in fact designed to handle this type of memory/connection scalability problem reliably, but in