I've noticed this as well (and there was a post from Tarek Ziadé's blog a couple of days that mentioned it too) [1] I've evolved to this approach - with the ad

I've noticed this as well (and there was a post from Tarek Ziadé's blog a couple of days that mentioned it too) [1] I've evolved to this approach - with the addition of WebSockets and a data binding layer (knockout) - to building the infrastructure for an algorithmic hedge fund over the last couple of years and it works extremely well. Your backend components are free to do whatever they need to (in whatever language/technology) and publish data periodically. The web server simply dips into these streams of updates and transforms and routes them to the front end as needed. It's an extremely flexible and agile way to develop applications, I can't recommend it enough! In fact it's so nice to develop this way that I'm writing a book about the ideas and techniques I've used which I hope to post to HN in a couple of weeks when I've got the infrastructure and homepage up and running. [1] Post: http://blog.ziade.org/2013/01/25/a-new-development-era-essay/ http://blog.ziade.org/2013/01/25/a-new-development-era-essay... Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120020 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120020