Compare suitability, operational responsibilities and limits before choosing this technology for a project. Which trade-offs should guide the decision?

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Node.js is useful for network services, tooling and applications with substantial asynchronous I/O. Its event loop should not be blocked by long CPU-bound work. Use worker threads, separate services or other suitable processing boundaries when heavy computation would delay unrelated requests.

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