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The single-threaded event driven system is really fast when handling lots of requests at once from clients.

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Andrei Neagoie
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Przemysław Lib
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read

*when handling lots of reasonably sized requests at once from clients. Offloading heavy computational tasks to separate system components though is not such a bad idea regardless (both for Node and PHP)

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