I was having a conversation the other day with a principle JavaScript engineer who's been in the industry for 20 years. I asked him, "What's the use-case for No

I was having a conversation the other day with a principle JavaScript engineer who's been in the industry for 20 years. I asked him, "What's the use-case for Node in industry? It's so much slower than other server platforms, which in the age of the cloud translates directly to real expense. Is it only used by startups who need maximum agility?" His answer was that for larger companies, server costs are orders of magnitude cheaper than payroll. It's often much more valuable for a company to improve their development process than server performance. So high-productivity (and ease of hiring) technologies like Node and Go can end up being a really good business tradeoff in terms of actual dollars, even if they result in double or triple the server costs.