When he's citing Node dominance, Javascript is mixed in there - and as we know, client side javascript is EVERYWHERE. I don't think we can draw any conclusion

When he's citing Node dominance, Javascript is mixed in there - and as we know, client side javascript is EVERYWHERE. I don't think we can draw any conclusion about node pulling away. Django is SOLID, and if we went by say, dice.com data, it's about 50% as popular making it a still safe choice. Around here (RTP, NC) it feels about as popular as rails - but that's just a feeling. I think you probably have to add Flask+SQLAlchemy to that, but it's a bit less common regionally. Either are definitely still a solid choice for rapid application development. Now, for whatever it means, when I've talked to IT shops, it's not uncommon for a rails shop to be running at 500 nodes when an equivalent Java shop has 10 nodes -- it may be because those shops have bad developers, but there may be something a bit true about inefficiency somewhere - or it may just be those rails developers aren't as plugged in to things like CDNs and memcache.