I think they meant "I read up on isolates", rather than "You should read up on isolates"! I think you're exactly right though. Isolates are the way forward, and

I think they meant "I read up on isolates", rather than "You should read up on isolates"! I think you're exactly right though. Isolates are the way forward, and are gradually going to take more and more use cases from node-based functions.