Node.js on multi-core machines

Question

Node.js looks interesting, BUT I must miss something - isn\'t Node.js tuned only to run on a single process and thread?

Then how does it scale for m

Answer 1

It's also possible to design the web-service as several stand alone servers that listen to unix sockets, so that you can push functions like data processing into seperate processes.

This is similar to most scrpting/database web server architectures where a cgi process handles business logic and then pushes and pulls the data via a unix socket to a database.

the difference being that the data processing is written as a node webserver listening on a port.

it's more complex but ultimately its where multi-core development has to go. a multiprocess architecture using multiple components for each web request.