Streaming

Short story: `pipeline()` over `.pipe()` and destroy what you create.

Memory management in Node.js streaming applications can be quite complex. Streams don’t inherently protect against memory exhaustion and we get into common pitfalls developers face.

I feel like “streaming” will be more and more of a concept in 2026. We can stream HTML, but rarely do. With AI APIs these days, we’re seeing streaming much more commonly. We want to see that LLM kick out an answer word-by-word, as the perceived performance is better that way. What about a JSON […]