Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for web servers. Keeping the latency low and the throughput high while scaling up and out is not easy. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment that achieves low latency and high throughput by taking a “non-blockingrdquo; approach to serving requests.
In other words, Node.js wastes no time or resources on waiting for I/O requests to return.Let me explainhellip;In the traditional approach to creating web servers, for each incoming request or connection the server spawns a new thread of execution or even forks a new process to handle the request and send a response.
Conceptually, this makes perfect sense, but in practice it incurs a great deal of overhead.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
In other words, Node.js wastes no time or resources on waiting for I/O requests to return.Let me explainhellip;In the traditional approach to creating web servers, for each incoming request or connection the server spawns a new thread of execution or even forks a new process to handle the request and send a response.
Conceptually, this makes perfect sense, but in practice it incurs a great deal of overhead.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here