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What are the best practices in Node.js to communicate with an existing Java backend?

8th December 2011

My answer to What are the best practices in Node.js to communicate with an existing Java backend? on Quora

Node speaks HTTP extremely well, and using HTTP means you can do things like put an HTTP load balancer or cache (such as varnish) between Node and your Java application server at a later date.

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