[erikpukinskis]

Wait, what?

Node is very happy to asyncronously stream chunks of data over HTTP. You could write a blocking server by collecting the whole response in memory and sending it out all at once, but that’s not required by Node.

This is literally the reason Node even exists, nonblocking I/O with a simple threading model. You can have a million open connections all asynchronously nibbling data as the buffers empty.