Online payment service PayPal says swapping Java for node.js on its servers is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying the creation of server-side software. PayPal has moved ...

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.

When AnyPresence debated the adoption of Java, .Net, or Node.js for our enterprise development platform, the decision wasn’t obvious or made overnight. In the end, the scalability, ...

Simply put, if Java EE applications can be scalable on multiple JVM instances, they are also mostly scalable on multiple server nodes. As computer prices drop and performance continues to increase, ...