Scaling Node.js instance for CPU-intensive application

Héla Ben Khalfallah
ITNEXT
Published in
12 min readMar 12, 2024

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Performing CPU-intensive operations with Node.js

Handling CPU-intensive operations from the server side (image license granted to the author)

Table of contents

· Introduction
The project idea
Initial version and its shortcomings
· Node.js beyond promises and async/await
A leap into the unknown
Differences between Worker Threads and Clusters
An attempt to implement using JavaScript
Limits and trade-offs
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