More threads on an already busy machine
The bcrypt numbers in Nub’s thread-pool PR make a good case for increasing the pool on the machines tested. The part I disagree with is choosing that setting for every application from its CPU count.

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The bcrypt numbers in Nub’s thread-pool PR make a good case for increasing the pool on the machines tested. The part I disagree with is choosing that setting for every application from its CPU count.

A fast, zero-dependency memcached client for Node.js

Each time you send a query to PostgreSQL, there’s a delay while your client waits for a response before sending the next one. This is fine for one query, but if you send ten, you wait ten times when y

Picture an online store launching a new product and sending out a mailing list campaign. Thousands of users click the same link at once. The product page, built with a Node.js app like Next.js, needs

How Platformatic ICC Outperforms AWS ECS Target Tracking and Step Scaling

Most Kubernetes autoscalers work the same way: they check a metric, compare it to a threshold, and then add pods. The issue is that by the time the metric crosses the threshold, the application is alr
