You don't have to fight for memory, it's because of the overhead of Goroutines / default HTTP connections in a scenario with a lot of connections. By default Go

You don't have to fight for memory, it's because of the overhead of Goroutines / default HTTP connections in a scenario with a lot of connections. By default Go uses way less memory than Node. And in Node the only way to have semi decent performance is to use ultra optimized C/C++ external libraries.