- It's important when running a server not to block
- Blocking the event loop will block all endpoints
- Most important with CPU-bound tasks
- Best case: users will see latency
- Worst case: server will timeout/crash
- Built-in Node async file writing
- Using child process and worker threads to handle CPU tasks
- Node's mechanism for asynchronous processing
- What the heck is the event loop anyway?
- In the Loop