When NodeJS I/O Blocks | The Backend Engineering Show
Oct 12, 2022•26 min
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Episode description
In this episode of the backend engineering show I go through an article I wrote discussing NodeJS Asynchronous I/O
https://medium.com/@hnasr/when-nodejs-i-o-blocks-327f8a36fbd4
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3:00 Part 1 Socket/IO
9:48 Part 2 File I/O
12:42 Part 3 DNS
16:22 Part 4 NodeJS Single Threaded
19:10 Part 5 NodeJS Thread Pool
21:23 Part 6 DNS lookup bottleneck in Node
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