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 possible to scale NodeJS out to multiple boxes using a pure TCP load balancer (HAProxy) in front of multiple boxes running one NodeJS process each.

If you then have some common knowledge to share between all instances you could use a central Redis store or similar which can then be accessed from all process instances (e.g. from all boxes)