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‘nodejs is slow’ isn’t engineering.

‘nodejs is too slow’ is high school level backward rationalization.

‘nodejs is too slow for my use case’ is getting there.

Most stuff we engineer maxes out the database way way waaaay before it saturates its CPU capacity regardless of the language used. You’d better know very well that you’ll be vulnerable to this as a business, otherwise your inefficient competitors will take your money faster than you can build value.




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