We've been using node.js as our entire backend for a project that just needs a simple, low latency interface to a complicated SQL database, with some push abili

We've been using node.js as our entire backend for a project that just needs a simple, low latency interface to a complicated SQL database, with some push abilities. It has served wonderfully in this role. In fact, for our most common API call, the average response time is about 8ms.