Node.js for the Real World

Here at mobile.de we’ve been busy refactoring monolithic legacy applications into a landscape of microservice-oriented architectures. As we believe in concepts like the single responsibility principle and separation of concerns, we think Node.js as back-end for the user-interface layer is a perfect usecase. Today I want to share some of our recent learnings and approaches running Node.js in production, specifically when developing the new mobile.de homepage. Quite a few points are more general and might also apply to other platforms.