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Node.js Design Fundamentals

• Conceptions

  • Asynchronous
  • Event Loop
  • IO operations
  • Non blocking

• Components

  • V8
  • libuv

Nginx vs Apache

Capacity

Memory

What Makes Node.js Faster Than Java? (source)

Java

Node.js

What is the difference between traditional threaded model versus Node.js non-blocking event loop?

Java

Node.js

Performance Comparisons

• Performance Comparison Between Node.js and Java EE
• Node.js at PayPal

Operations that are performed in main thread using asynchronous non-blocking system calls or in worker threads.

List operations

Operation	Main thread	Worker thread
DNS		X
Filesystem		X
Pipe	X
TCP	X
TTY	X
UDP	X

Components

JS + V8 + libuv = Node.js

Overview

Codebase

Links

• V8 https://developers.google.com/v8/
• libuv http://nikhilm.github.io/uvbook/index.html
• c-ares http://c-ares.haxx.se/
• http-parser https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser
• OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/
• zlib http://www.zlib.net/
• icu http://site.icu-project.org/download