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Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser. Still, software developers should beware the limits of Node.js.

With the rise of Node.js, server-side JavaScript is becoming an important cloud, container, and web development language.

Microsoft spotlighted the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js, which the company launched in December, with a demo at the recent Node Summit in San Francisco. During his keynote presentation at the event, ...

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