Introduction
Explore the fundamental concepts of scalability in Node.js applications, including the scale cube model, load balancing, service registries, and container orchestration like Kubernetes. Understand how to break down monolithic apps into microservices and apply architectural patterns for high availability and fault tolerance.
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In its early days, Node.js was just a non-blocking web server written in C++ and JavaScript and was called web.js. Its creator, Ryan Dahl, soon realized the potential of the platform and started extending it with tools to enable the creation of different types of server-side applications on top of JavaScript and the non-blocking paradigm.
The characteristics of Node.js are perfect for the implementation of distributed systems, ranging from a few nodes ...