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Tangential: A discussion on STM vs Locks between Cliff Click (Cheif JVM Engg at Azul Systems back then) and Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame): http://h2o.ai/personal/2008/05/clojure-stms-vs-locks/

And the classic KiranDave/Aphyr vs Ryah thread on "NodeJs Concurrency" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306241