Scaling Node.JS across multiple cores / servers

Question

Ok so I have an idea I want to peruse but before I do I need to understand a few things fully.

Firstly the way I think im going to go ahead with this system is to ha

Answer 1

On my front end server, I have 8 cores, what's the best way to scale node so that the load is distributed across the cores?

Try to look at node.js cluster module which is a multi-core server manager.