In a heated debate over technicalities on the internet, you may have heard the argument "Yeah, that may be concurrent but not parallel computing." You're wondering what do they mean anyway? What's the difference? Most importantly, should I care? As it turns out, Node.js can be categorized into one of these. On the general level, though, as long as you keep in mind that the CPU is pretty much alway
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