Everyday amazes me that people actually think that when an a "Big Corporation" announces a new technology adoption they actually believe they rewrite everything for that new technology and don't consider it a PR/SnakeOil/Smokeware movement.
Netflix has also blogged about similar experiences.
Walmart blogged about how they rewrote their site in Node.js and was able to handle traffic on Black Friday way better than with previous systems.
PayPal themselves wrote about rewriting the account dashboard in Node and how it improved things.
This isn't snake oil or a PR movement. These are real companies using Node.js to make their businesses better.
Uber talks about how their whole infrastructure is built on Node.js
IBM bought Strongloop, self proclaimed "The Node.js Company".
>how it improved things.
> how performance was improved and how much faster they can work.
Do a full rewrite of some ten years old software in any language and it's very likely to be faster. Architecture and software engineering made it faster, not Node. Had they used brainfuck and gotten better perfs, would you have praised brainfuck?
not negating the power of node.js, but if you google enough you can see success stories of migrating from any to any other language, including https://blog.twitter.com/2011/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faste...