Worker Threads vs. Child Processes: Making the Right Choice in Node.js

Worker Threads vs. Child Processes in Node.js: When to Use Which? Early in my career when I first started working with Node.js, I loved how fast and event-driven it was. But then I hit a wall—what happens when my app needs to crunch a lot of data, like processing large files or performing complex calculations? The event loop would freeze, and everything would slow down. That’s when I discovered…