Typescript is closely integrated with Node.js at this point. So there's this related open source project seeking to optimize the performance of Node.js apps ru

Typescript is closely integrated with Node.js at this point. So there's this related open source project seeking to optimize the performance of Node.js apps running on IIS and hosting them on Azure. https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki https://github.com/tjanczuk/iisnode/wiki We've seen some interesting performance gains by supplanting Node.js's HTTP implementation with the in-kernel HTTP stack, http.sys. http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/08/the-httpsys-stack-for-nodejs-apps-on.html http://tomasz.janczuk.org/2012/08/the-httpsys-stack-for-node... Disclosure: I work for Microsoft. I personally found this interesting.