Breathe Into the Node.js
summary
Node.js claims rapid adoption with 8 million instances running daily and 1 billion package downloads per week, reporting ~100% year‑over‑year growth and strong contributor growth. Deployments span containers, Cloud Foundry, AWS and serverless platforms (Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, OpenWhisk); npm, V8, Express, React/Angular, Electron and Docker feature heavily. Production case studies include Twitter moved 100% of mobile traffic to Node, Netflix breaking apps into Node microservices, and Skycatch running drone data pipelines on Lambda — all cited as working at scale.
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