Setting up node.js cluster for socket.io – A simply way to performance

In this article we will focus on setting up node.js cluster for socket.io. Socket.io is doing multiple requests to perform handshake and establish connection with a client. With a cluster those requests may arrive to different workers, which will break handshake protocol. To solve this problem we can use perfect solution based on sticky-sessions module. […]

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May 3rd, 2017
Posted in Big Traffic, Express.js, Node.js, Real Time I/O, socket.io
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NGINX vs Apache – power engine asynchronous and even-driven server

Apache is a flexible server which can be process-based, thread-based or event-based as determined by the MPM used, while nginx is an event-based web server. Nginx is probably the two best-known asynchronous servers and Apache is undoubtedly the best known originally process-based server. The main advantage of the asynchronous approach is scalability. In a process-based […]

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December 6th, 2015
Posted in Big Traffic, Nginx Server, Node.js
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