http://simonwillison.net/2010-06-02T15:57:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-06-02T15:57:00+00:002010-06-02T15:57:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jun/2/parsing/

<p><strong><a href="http://debuggable.com/posts/parsing-file-uploads-at-500-mb-s-with-node-js:4c03862e-351c-4faa-bb67-4365cbdd56cb">Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js</a></strong></p> 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. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/binary">binary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/buffers">buffers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nodejs">nodejs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/uploads">uploads</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/felixgeisendorfer">felixgeisendorfer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/files">files</a></p>