Sometimes it takes others to take the leap of faith with a new technology, here is a short list of companies developing software applications using Node.js.
When LinkedIn went to rebuild their Mobile application they decided to use Node.js for their Mobile application server which acts as a REST endpoint for Mobile devices. Their engineering blog talks about the Mobile stack. src
Nextflix
Netflix started to move there platform over to Node.js, some of the reason for this was in order to be able to more quickly develop and deploy varies parts of the software. src
Paypal
PayPal began migrating some of their Java, and C++ code to Node.js. They began to create some small applications to test Node.js and after seeing an increase in development time and quality, they started moving their entire site to Node.js. src
Uber
Uber’s fundamental service of letting anyone have a private driver is being powered by Node.js due to the data intensive realtime services required by the application. src
Walmart
Walmart needed to start migrating off of the Java platform they started to slowly implement a proxy with node and started to redirect request depending on what phase of the migration that they where in. This allowed them to still have legacy code as they started to migrate over services to Node.js. src
You can find a more extensive list of companies, and applications using Node.js in production.
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