Node Weekly Issue #633: The life of a ~200ms HTTP request to a Node app

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Node Weekly issue #633 covers a scroll-driven visualization tracing every step of a ~200ms HTTP POST request through Node's internals and event loop, a proposal to add error codes to the Fetch API spec, a new C-based JavaScript runtime called Ant, a guide migrating from Express to Go's Fiber framework, Vercel deprecating Node 20 on October 1 2026, Playwright CI optimization tips, GitHub security settings for maintainers, Dependabot's new 3-day package cooldown, TC39's upcoming 115th meeting agenda, Cloudflare's new 'Drop' static site deployment tool, and a transpiler converting JavaScript/PHP/Python to PL/pgSQL.

Issue #633: The life of a ~200ms HTTP request to a Node app — Node Weekly

<p>clicked through the whole 200ms viz, curious if it covers connection reuse on the outbound leg. in prod the part that actually eats the budget is usually DNS + a cold TLS handshake to whatever downstream the handler calls, not the event loop itself. keepalive agents fix like half the ‘mystery latency’ tickets I’ve ever looked at.</p>
