Two years ago, when Node.js v0.10 was released, Chris Lea updated his popular Ubuntu PPA and users were automatically upgraded from v0.8. Even though this was done at the encouragement of the Node.js maintainers at the time, it ended up causing a significant amount of pain for users who were not prepared for such a major change in a single apt-get upgrade.

One of the most useful, yet most commonly misunderstood types of Node.js streams are object streams. In this article we'll explain what exactly object streams are, how they behave in contrast to regular streams, and how we can use them ourselves.

Node's "event loop" is central to being able to handle high throughput scenarios. It is a magical place filled with unicorns and rainbows, and is the reason Node can essentially be "single threaded" while still allowing an arbitrary number of operations to be handled in the background. This post will shed light on how the event loop operates so you too can enjoy the magic.