Systemd also gives you cpu/memory limiting, file system isolation, locked down capabilities for the process, CPU affinity, can use different Node versions for d

Systemd also gives you cpu/memory limiting, file system isolation, locked down capabilities for the process, CPU affinity, can use different Node versions for different apps, etc. It removes the need for Docker for the vast majority of cases. Systemd won’t do load balancing, but you should have nginx/caddy in front of Node anyway, and either will handle load balancing just fine.