Blog

Node.js posts

Backpressure, async lifecycles, worker threads, and the profiling work that turns a vague slowdown into a one line fix.

1 post in Node.js

Sorted by newest first

Abstract streaks of coloured light suggesting data flowing at speed

Node.js27 May 20267 min read

Node.js Streams Silently Drop Data When You Forget Backpressure

An export job wrote thirty thousand rows to a file and produced a file with about nineteen thousand in it. Nothing threw, nothing logged, and the process exited successfully every single time.