Chapter 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | ||
| --Alan Kay | ||
Eliminating blocking processes through the use of event-driven, asynchronous I/O is Node's primary organizational principle. We've learned how this design helps developers in shaping information and adding capacity: lightweight, independent, and share-nothing processes communicating through callbacks synchronized within a predictable event loop.
Accompanying the growth in the popularity of Node is a growth in the number of well-designed evented systems and applications. For a new technology to be successful, it must eliminate existing problems and/or offer to consumers a better solution at a lower cost in terms of time or effort or price. In its short and fertile lifespan, the Node community has collaboratively proven that this new development model is a viable alternative to existing technologies. The number and quality of Node...
