Node is certainly not faster in many cases AND in many cases nonblocking IO is NOT what you want. Sometimes sequential makes way more sense. For example, I wro

Node is certainly not faster in many cases AND in many cases nonblocking IO is NOT what you want. Sometimes sequential makes way more sense. For example, I wrote a node script that would run a bunch of compilations of files for custom less and javascript minifacation and other stuff on a large codebase. Node opened so many file connections it would crush the machine and not finish. A simple bash script ran in about a second. My point is you should definitely NOT use Node because you think it's faster than Java in every case. In fact, evented everything is a pretty terrible trade off in terms of code quality for performance. There are so many better/easier/cheaper ways to get a high performance, reliable system without using Node.