Aria, Julien - those were very enlightening answers! Looks like, I'll be busy for a few months now digging into this area. I'm incidentally new to web application development, too. Though I'll be making Node/Express my first web application development platform/framework, I won't have the benefit of any rich, first-hand experience of the history leading up to Node :-(
Maybe a last question, a very basic one? > C10K is not generally about having 10,000 requests come > in at once, but 10,000 concurrently connected clients. Node or not, is there any point in getting (and remaining) connected to a web app with extremely large latencies / response times, versus waiting in queue to getting connected and maybe even this attempt timing out in the process. Basically, if I've understood it correctly, I see no merit in claiming before my users that my app can support c10k clients when at the end of the day the app becomes too slow to be usable by these c10k users, forcing me to look for standard alternative platforms and architectures outside Node to scale up and out, whatever they happen to be. (I don't know at this point what these scale-friendly platforms/architectures are, but I assume they exist and people are already using them.) /HS -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/8ae3add0-14bd-4f71-8fef-fac3ee18dbbf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
