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> I don't think huge enterprise systems for some of the largest brands in the world are necessarily the best fit Why??

• tootie 12y ago
  Not OP, but I'll chime in. Enterprise software has some unique challenges. Enterprises deal with a galaxy of small systems, a mixture of proprietary and purchased software, a mix of IT staff and consultants, leadership who may or not have techology as a core competency, frequently a lot of bureaucracy and compliance rules, lots of long-running maintenance and as a corollary, you may retain a lot of lower-tier talent if you're recruting developers to maintain an 8 year old expense reporting system. All of these scream for safety and risk mitigation more than pushing the envelope. Static typing, schemas, battle tested development tools, lots of vendor support, big pool of talent to recruit from. There's no appetite for risk taking especially when the benefits are so hard for management to understand. As a developer at a consulting company, my peers understand technology very well but clients are 50/50. They mostly standardize on Java or .NET and and I don't think I could even put together a cogent argument of why node would help them at all. Maybe personal bias because I think node is kinda shitty and my limited exposure has been nothing but painful.
  • LunaSea 12y ago
    Paypal switched to Node.js from Java (I think) and they divided their amount of servers by two.
• emergentcypher 12y ago
  Because javascript.
• serve_yay 12y ago
  Some people still think of JS as a toy language.