Meet Nodeload, the new Download server

We're announcing/launching https://transloadit.com/ later on today. The service (not the website) is written entirely in node.js.

So far we have processed 55k internal jobs for our test users, where each job is usually tied to 3 or more command line scripts executing. Probably not as a big as GitHub, but afaik, we're the first SaaS/IaaS product build with node.js.

1. The core library is completely event-based and most of the third-party libraries are event-based. Not true for Python, Ruby, etc.

2. JavaScript has grown in an event-based environment (browsers). Any serious JS developer is already familiar with event-based programming because of it.

It's debatable whether JS syntax is very event friendly, however (CoffeeScript has made an attempt at fixing it).