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Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on the V8 engine; it executes JavaScript outside the browser and is widely used for I/O-heavy, event-driven server workloads. Teams choose Node for JSON-first REST and GraphQL APIs, WebSocket and SSE real-time features, BFF layers in front of microservices, streaming and file processing pipelines, and serverless functions where cold-start and bundle size matter. Its non-blocking model suits many concurrent connections when work is asynchronous, though CPU-bound jobs often belong in worker threads or separate services. In mature products, Node frequently pairs with TypeScript, structured logging, metrics, and feature flags. Softaims engineers are vetted for how they reason about the event loop, backpressure, error propagation, and operational tradeoffs—not only framework syntax.

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