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Outbound SSL Performance in Node.js
When browsing the internet, we all know that employing encryption via SSL is extremely important. At PayPal, security is our top priority. We use end-to-end encryption, not only for our public website, but for all our internal service calls as well. SSL encrypton will, however, affect Node.js performance at scale. We’ve spent time tuning our outbound connections to try and get the most out of them. This is a list of some of those SSL configuration adjustments that we’ve found can dramatically improve outbound SSL performance.