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Discussion on: How can Nodejs handle many requests ?

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The answer is event loop

If your backend processes are heavy on IO then you will be able effectively to serve only 4 clients at a time, but otherwise you will be able to serve more.

at the same time quickly

It doesn't do it at the same time (at least not more that 4 items at the same time), it does it in turns.