Practical Microservices

Using Node.js

For better or for worse, we use JavaScript and the Node.js runtime to implement our system. The principles we cover absolutely transcend programming languages, but bringing them down to the mundane requires implementing them in something. We use Node.js because it’s a fine language when you stay away from its warts—which we do—and because most developers who have written code to run on the web can at least grok JavaScript.