I consider myself a pretty conservative developer when it comes to the tools that I use, and mainly stick to the core LAMP stack for my deployments - MySQL, Apache, PHP etc. I've ventured down the path with MongoDB and currently use it for one special use case where the data served is static.
But for Node - I've really come to the conclusion that it is a great tool for back end API work, such as serving very short requests, Ajax calls, etc. Couple the ability to develop in Javascript while serving JSON makes Node a really nice place to develop in.
Plus, performance is off the charts for my API serving applications. On a dev instance I can serve close to 5500 reqs/sec for one of our APIs where PHP was at about 1000 req/sec. And the difference in memory usage is fantastic.
BTW, our production Node deployment is Node, with the memcache, mysql, mysql-pool, cluster, and express modules. I've been thrilled so far.
But for Node - I've really come to the conclusion that it is a great tool for back end API work, such as serving very short requests, Ajax calls, etc. Couple the ability to develop in Javascript while serving JSON makes Node a really nice place to develop in.
Plus, performance is off the charts for my API serving applications. On a dev instance I can serve close to 5500 reqs/sec for one of our APIs where PHP was at about 1000 req/sec. And the difference in memory usage is fantastic.
BTW, our production Node deployment is Node, with the memcache, mysql, mysql-pool, cluster, and express modules. I've been thrilled so far.