If you want to get some of the benefits mentioned in the article with Node, check out my Common Node projects which uses fibers to emulate threads and a synchronous environment: https://github.com/olegp/common-node
Here's a slightly more advanced version of a Telnet server written for Common Node: https://github.com/olegp/common-node/blob/master/examples/ch... - it should be pretty straightforward to add the logic necessary to throttle the rate at which new connections are accepted.
Here's a slightly more advanced version of a Telnet server written for Common Node: https://github.com/olegp/common-node/blob/master/examples/ch... - it should be pretty straightforward to add the logic necessary to throttle the rate at which new connections are accepted.