Quoting Terence Eden

2025-07-17T14:31:38+00:00

The modern workforce shouldn't be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked.

Data shouldn't live in a file on a laptop. It shouldn't be a single file on a network share. Data is a living beast. Data needs to live in a database - not an Excel file. Access should be granted for each according to their needs.

— Terence Eden, We've got to stop sending files to each other

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Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js

2010-06-02T15:57:00+00:00

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.

Tags: binary, buffers, html5, javascript, nodejs, uploads, recovered, felixgeisendorfer, files

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Quoting Terence Eden

Parsing file uploads at 500 mb/s with node.js