That makes sense, mostly, but I'm a bit confused as to what you mean by saying it is easy to "miss" a blocking operation such that it will take down your server. It seems pretty hard to have any operation be blocking in node. To my knowledge everything I can do in node is asynch (with exception of a few blocking file functions, but I don't use those as there are asynch versions which are recommended anyway)

I'm also a bit puzzled by your statement that there are people working on the problem but not talking about it. Do you have some inside information? :) I do agree that it is a solvable problem, however.