> It's when you use it to serve files (images, videos in particular) or larger data tables that it loses steam. Pretty much every guide/tutorial/documentation

> It's when you use it to serve files (images, videos in particular) or larger data tables that it loses steam. Pretty much every guide/tutorial/documentation says to not use node for this. Isn't this the same for a lot of languages like php, python, ruby, etc? Those all usually run behind a reverse proxy that handles file serving.