Nice interview. I like the idea of the web server being simplified down to a router to backend services. A non-blocking server is a natural for that task. One

Nice interview. I like the idea of the web server being simplified down to a router to backend services. A non-blocking server is a natural for that task. One of the other ideas the interview mentions, that I don't think is mentioned for the "cloud" enough, is the having data reside on the same machine (node :-)) as the software that analyzes it. If you're going to spread out over many machines why not stay local as much as possible. There is added overhead for administration but that can be automated.