Of course, the surge of interest in Node.js means new tools are arriving, some of which, like IBM’s Node-RED offer intriguing approaches, but they’re still a long way from being as complete or ...

Microsoft .Net also has a huge following in the enterprise, but adopting .Net would require picking a specific .Net language like C#, and that would mean alienating the large swath of Java developers.

It took two node.js engineers a few months to build the necessary software, almost half the time it took the five-man Java team, with the node.js app written in 33 percent fewer lines of code and ...