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Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js. Handling file uploads is a real sweet spot for Node.js, especially now it has a high performance Buffer API for dealing with binary chunks of data. Felix Geisendörfer has released a new library called “formidable” which makes receiving file uploads (including HTML5 multiple uploads) easy, and uses some clever algorithmic tricks to dramatically speed up the processing of multipart data.

Posted 2nd June 2010 at 3:57 pm

Tagged binary, buffers, felixgeisendorfer, files, html5, javascript, node, nodejs, uploads

4 comments

That's going to make things a lot eaiesr from here on out.

Irene - 16th August 2011 20:09 - #
People normlaly pay me for this and you are giving it away!

Lotta - 8th October 2011 22:41 - #
Haha. I woke up down today. You've creheed me up!

Coralyn - 10th October 2011 03:17 - #
Glad to see that Node.js can handle the large data junks efficiently. Speed has been an issue of me. Searching and ediscovery tools should work better with increased speed.
June - 7th November 2011 21:45 - #

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