Yes, Node is not perfect but (with TypeScript added) tell me a development platform that can run under 100 MB of memory, handle most requests under 50 ms, can s

Yes, Node is not perfect but (with TypeScript added) tell me a development platform that can run under 100 MB of memory, handle most requests under 50 ms, can spin up a http service in a day or so and still perform well under load (and scales horizontally with ease). Its probably a rhetorical question, but I would suggest Go as another alternative. Naturally, you wouldn't want to write the frontend in Go and it also has the "not perfect" quality.