Taming event loop lag

#​538 — July 2, 2024

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How We Tamed Node.js Event Loop Lag: A Deepdive — Node famously uses very few threads yet can handle a large number of clients performantly, as long as the work associated with each client is ‘small.’ When you get nested loops, as in this story, however, things can go off the rails quickly. Node’s Don’t Block the Event Loop is a great further guide to this topic.

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How to Perform Data Validation in Node — Explores data validation in the Node backend, and shows us how to implement it in Express using the express-validator library.

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📄 Deploying AWS Lambda Functions with Serverless Framework and Node.js Marco Moauro

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