How even quick Node.js async functions can block the Event-Loop
When I tried to fix the situation, I realized how little I actually knew about the event-loop behavior and gained some realizations that at first surprised me and some fellow developers I shared this with. I believe it’s important that as many Node developers will have this knowledge too - which led me to writing this article.
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