The main reason for using Node.js is because the rest of our stack is Node.js: https://bedrock.io https://bedrock.io We use MongoDB as persistence and have exi

The main reason for using Node.js is because the rest of our stack is Node.js: https://bedrock.io https://bedrock.io We use MongoDB as persistence and have existing wrappers for dealing with Google Cloud Storage. Since it's an isolated service we could've used a different implementation language. In our case Node.js in our existing Kubernetes environment was the least amount of friction