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.

To do that, I'm trying to isolate what I think is the most obvious raw performance test: file upload. There is a Node.js upload server and a Groovy (using the Grizzly NIO framework) upload server. The ...

PayPal reveals that writing server-side software in node.js rather than Java is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying web development. How replacing Java with JavaScript is ...