unpopular: the usual Node.js advice is wrong
hot take: the standard Node.js pattern is a net negative once you have more than one team touching it. happy to be wrong if someone has numbers.

Server-side JavaScript, APIs, and workers.
hot take: the standard Node.js pattern is a net negative once you have more than one team touching it. happy to be wrong if someone has numbers.
i am used to golang's goroutines but moving some logic to node.js is messing with me. why does this simple loop feel like it blocks everything when i throw a heavy json parse inside? does the event loop really just sit there waiting for the cpu to finish this? am i supposed to pu…
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