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Trevor Norris 4a74fc9776 doc: add domain postmortem
Do to various reasons, outlined in the committed document, domains were
only in core for 2 years before being deprecated. This outline explains
why they received criticism from the community and never gained traction
with module authors.

Also included is an example script that accompanies the postmortem
analysis.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6159
Reviewed-By: Robert Lindstädt <robert.lindstaedt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kelvin Knighton <keltheceo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jeremiah Senkpiel <fishrock123@rocketmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
2016-04-15 15:12:26 -06:00
Jeff Harris e67fee0fb5 doc: add topic - event loop, timers, `nextTick()`
Adds a new topic that provides an overview of the event loop, timers, and
`process.nextTick()` that is based upon a NodeSource "Need to Node" presentation
hosted by @trevnorris: Event Scheduling and the Node.js Event
Loop (https://nodesource.com/resources).

PR-URL: #4936
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Calvin W. Metcalf <calvin.metcalf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
2016-04-08 14:11:58 -04:00
Jarrett Widman 5f1eb434ee doc: topic blocking vs non-blocking
The need for an overview of blocking vs non-blocking was
identified in the docs WG Q1 roadmap. As there are several
topics also pending creation, this one tries to hit the correct
level of detail based on completion of the others.  One
which is referenced is
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4936/files and URLs
within this PR need to change based on where that will land
on the node website.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5326
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
2016-03-19 15:19:15 +02:00