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 ...

The debate whether to use Java or Node.js on your servers can and will go on for years. As opposed to most debates, however, we can have it both ways. Java can be cross-compiled into JavaScript.

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators ...