Disclaimer: As a non-native English speaker, I used AI to help structure and polish this article. A few dayss ago, I shared Implementing a Zero-Allocation S3-FIFO Cache in Node.js —an exploratory v0.1 release demonstrating how the S3-FIFO (Simple and Scalable Scan-Resistant FIFO) caching algorithm can be implemented using pre-allocated TypedArray s to eliminate Garbage Collection (GC) pressure in…
worker-threads vs cluster: When to Use Which, With Reasoning Node.js is single-threaded. That's the first thing everyone learns. But at some point you realize okay, single-threaded is fine for most things. But what happens when your app needs to actually use more than one CPU core? Or what happens when one heavy task starts blocking everything else? That's where worker-threads and cluster both sh…
