As I said in the article, it's event based which means it can handle massive con...

		simonw on Nov 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Node.js is genuinely exciting As I said in the article, it's event based which means it can handle massive concurrency and serve pages that don't necessarily reply straight away - perfect for implementing things like comet. It gives you similar capabilities to Ruby's EventMachine. I don't think PHP has an equivalent at the moment.