Sex, Lies, and Server-side Javascript

Even more along these lines, Scala (another JVM-based language) has demonstrated 50 million message sends/per second with their Akka library.

http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-p...

I too like Node for small little tasks, tiny dev web servers, etc.

But the JVM is a far more mature platform for writing scalable, multi-core application servers, especially with modern languages like Scala and Clojure.

I think it was Larry Ellison that once said the only industry more driven than fashion than fashion itself, was IT.