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Podcast: The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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When is NodeJS Single Threaded and when is it multi-Threaded?
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:09:06
Publish Date: 2021-03-24 03:08:00
Description:

Node JS Is single-threaded asynchronous non-blocking javascript runtime, but it's not always single-threaded there are occasions where nodejs uses multi-threading, so the questions we will try to answer in this video, when is nodejs single-threaded and when does it use multi-threading and how will that affect my app?

  • Event Loop single thread, that really just loops for callbacks 0:00
  • Threading in Node jS (libuv) 4:00
    • used for
    • IO/intensive
      • DNS queries
      • file system reads
    • CPU intensive
      • crypto
      • compression
    • process.env.UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=1

Examples 8:00

Cluster Nodejs 16:00

Example 1

HTTP server return 1

HTTP server while 1

HTTP server with file system read async

HTTP server with file system read sync

HTTP server with fetch call to server (dns)


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