Big companies are using Node. That doesn't mean they're using it to the exclusion of other languages.
Keep in mind with the "big company" argument, that their situation is different than most other companies.
The saying, "Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." applies double when they're someone's victories.
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From: Kelly Cookson [mailto:KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 10:46 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] [EXTERNAL] Re: Rise of Node
Nathan,
What type of "scalability" are you looking for?
I'm too new to all of this to put up a good counter-argument. I don't want to pretend to know more than I do. I am aware that other technologies can scale, and that Node is not a silver bullet or "the" technology that everyone should use.
However, it seems to me that businesses like Walmart, eBay, Pay Pal, LinkedIn, Uber, Netflix, Groupon, and Yahoo could have chosen to deploy with Java, PHP or .NET if they had wanted to do so. It also seems to they could have chosen to deploy on IBM i systems if they had wanted to do so. Yet, they didn't. They chose Node.
I'm not going to speak on their behalf. I'm only going to say that, based on what I've read online, one reason they chose Node is because it scales very well. I'm also under the impression that our business wants the ability to scale to similarly large volumes of online business. So, I guess, that kind of scalability.
Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
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