If you are choosing from "all backend technologies", Node may or may not count as boring. It's certainly not as boring as Java. If, for whatever reason, you ne

If you are choosing from "all backend technologies", Node may or may not count as boring. It's certainly not as boring as Java. If, for whatever reason, you need to run JS outside the browser, then Node seems the most boring of all the possible options. Certainly "rewriting all our JS code in Java" sounds a lot less boring.