Introduction
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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 ...