Even more along these lines, Scala (another JVM-based language) has demonstrated 50 million message sends/per second with their Akka library. http://letitcrash

Even more along these lines, Scala (another JVM-based language) has demonstrated 50 million message sends/per second with their Akka library. http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-per-second-on-a-single-machine http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-p... I too like Node for small little tasks, tiny dev web servers, etc. But the JVM is a far more mature platform for writing scalable, multi-core application servers, especially with modern languages like Scala and Clojure.