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Beat Me, Win $100

Mark Rober

When worker threads beat processes for Node efficiency

#​643 — October 8, 2026 Read on the Web 📝 We're back after taking last week off – you didn't miss an issue :-) If you want one neat thing to check out today, look for the voice synth package below, it's a fun way to relive a bit of 80s nostalgia! __ Peter Cooper, your editor How Booking.com Cut the Cost of Its Biggest Node.js Service by 38% — The online travel company moved its biggest React SSR service from pm2’s process-based cluster approach to Platformatic’s Watt and worker threads, then tuned load balancing and V8’s GC to get noteworthy gains. Ilya Malyavin (Booking.com) 100+ Search Engi

Node Weekly · EN

The Russian stray dog that beat humans into orbit

In 1957, Soviet scientists sent Laika into space, making her a tragic hero

BBC Culture · EN