Deploying Node.js

Chapter 3. Scaling Node

Like concurrency and parallelism, scalability and performance are not the same thing.

	"The terms "performance" and "scalability" are commonly used interchangeably, but the two are distinct: performance measures the speed with which a single request can be executed, while scalability measures the ability of a request to maintain its performance under increasing load. For example, the performance of a request may be reported as generating a valid response within three seconds, but the scalability of the request measures the request's ability to maintain that three-second response time as the user load increases."
	--Pro Java EE 5, Steve Haines

It is not unusual for a reviewer to assert that Node cannot scale across cores and ...