Node.js/Express and parallel queues

Question

We are building an infrastructure which features a Node.js server and Express.

In the server, what is happening is as follow:

1. The server accepts an inc

Answer 1

(Answering my own question)

According to this question on Stack Overflow a solution in my case would be to implement a queue using Caolan McMahon's async module.

The main application will create jobs and push them into a queue, which has a limit on the number of concurrent jobs that can run. This allows processing tasks concurrently but with a strict control on the limit. It works like Cocoa's NSOperationQueue on Mac OSX.