After finding out that Node.js is in its nature single-threaded, we might think that all the cores of your processor are meant to go to waste, but this is not necessarily the case. In the previous part of this series, we prove that Node.js creates additional threads under the hood by itself. Not only that, […]
The HTTP protocol, having been introduced in 1991, is almost 30 years old. It went through quite a journey since the first documented version, later called 0.9. In this article, we briefly go through the history of the development of the HTTP protocol and focus on what HTTP/2 brings and how we can benefit from […]
The Node.js and JavaScript are often perceived as a single-threaded but in this series, we prove that it is not entirely true. Node.js creates threads when performing Input/Output operations. Not only that, but we can also create additional processes. While the above does not count yet as multithreading, in this article we begin to cover […]
The Worker Threads give us quite exciting features when compared to, for example, child processes. In this article, we create our instances of the MessageChannel to communicate with the Worker Threads. Aside from that, we also share the data between them: it’s something that is not possible with child processes. Communicating using the MessageChannel There […]
When writing Node.js code, we can approach tasks in many ways. While all of them might work fine, some perform better than others, and as developers, we should strive to make both easily readable and fast applications. In this article, we learn how to measure the performance of our code using Performance Hooks, also called […]
