Understanding NodeJS & Non-Blocking IO

Question

So, I\'ve recently been injected with the Node virus which is spreading in the Programming world very fast.

I am fascinated by it\'s \"Non-Blocking IO\" approach and hav

Answer 1

Even though node.js has been around for a few years, it's performance model is still a bit mysterious.

I recently started a blog and decided that the node.js model would be a good first topic since I wanted to understand it better myself and it would be helpful to others to share what I learned. Here are a couple of articles I wrote that explain the high level concepts and some tradeoffs:

Blocking vs. Non-Blocking I/O – What’s going on?

Understanding node.js Performance