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Does Node.js actually increase scalability?

I've been reading about the C10K Problem, and of particular note is the part that refers to asynchronous server I/O. http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#aio I believe this pretty much summarises what ...
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What are the challenges in building a scalable real-time web app?

I'm looking into real-time web applications using websockets and node.js. I'm interested to see what are some technical challenges with scaling such a setup. One such problem I've heard is that each ...