Playing guitar or relaxing with my family. Doing up the house.

Yes. But that isn't to say "Node is bad". As someone much smarter than me said: " Pick the right tool for the job "

BBC News (this is a cross over between our 'old' and 'new' stack; the front-end is still on the old stack but has started to plug into the new backend)... Backend : AWS (ELB, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch etc) + JRuby + Go + Node + Redis Frontend : Varnish, PHP, Memcache, JavaScript (Mustache templates, custom modules, some React) Dev Tools : Go CLI apps, Docker, Vagrant, Spurious (fake AWS), Grunt, Make, Rake