MULTITHREADING IN NODE.JS: USING ATOMICS FOR SAFE SHARED MEMORY OPERATIONS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Multithreading in Node comes with the risk of race conditions, where multiple threads accessing the same memory location can lead to inconsistent results. Atomics is a JavaScript API designed to address this issue by providing atomic operations that guarantee the integrity of shared memory access. It can be used to prevent race conditions and make sure that operations on shared resources occur as a single, uninterruptible unit.