--- title: A simple example for NodeJS multiprocessing | daily.dev description: The cluster module allows you to easily create a network of processes that all share server ports. While this is perfectly good code, it will run on only 1... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-simple-example-for-nodejs-multiprocessing--6o5r709e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A simple example for NodeJS multiprocessing | daily.dev og:description: The cluster module allows you to easily create a network of processes that all share server ports. While this is perfectly good code, it will run on only 1... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-simple-example-for-nodejs-multiprocessing--6o5r709e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/_6O5r709E.png og:image:alt: A simple example for NodeJS multiprocessing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A simple example for NodeJS multiprocessing **[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 3 min read · 40 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The cluster module allows you to easily create a network of processes that all share server ports. While this is perfectly good code, it will run on only 1 core of your most probably multicore environment. So what we can improve is to take advantage of the cluster module and fork our process to increase the software throughput. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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