Back in the day I used this product called ZXTM which was written by Zeus. ZXTM was/is a layer 4/7 load balancer, with the ability to write control code in wha

Back in the day I used this product called ZXTM which was written by Zeus. ZXTM was/is a layer 4/7 load balancer, with the ability to write control code in what felt like JavaScript, but wasn't. It was exceedingly frustrating to implement some use cases with it and hideously expensive, but I used it anyway because my app needed it. With Node.js, I have pretty much all the functionality I had in ZXTM and more. Because I can write in JavaScript and have access to load balancer-like functionality inside the app, it gives me a ton of control. It's also free and there is a great amount of support and code coming in from the community which helps me get ideas off the ground faster. The guys at Joyent have certainly done a GREAT job of making something that is stable, fast, easy to use, and enables easy adoption by the masses. If you want to call that marketing, then they've done a great job at it. I'd counter with their actual marketing materials around the product could be a bit better, but that will probably improve over time. Hands down, it's my favorite programming framework.