Yeah, I agree with you. A good rollout would use bare-metal base hardware and scalable on-demand instances that can be auto-spawned and auto-decommissioned in t

Yeah, I agree with you. A good rollout would use bare-metal base hardware and scalable on-demand instances that can be auto-spawned and auto-decommissioned in the cloud. However, I agree that the node.js generation is coming up believing that cloud is implicitly superior. Really I think this is a reaction to the fact that they don't know anything about system administration, either software or hardware, and they're trying to cover that up by claiming that anyone who uses real hardware is behind the times (in fact, they've even taken it to the extreme that anyone who uses a real server-side language is behind the times). It'd be great if we had more understanding of the marketing and political efforts in the tech world and had an entity that tried to counteract some of these fads before they got out of control. node.js itself would be a good target for such an entity.