I was thinking about this so decided to count the ones I know. I counted 26 sites that are well-known brands that I’m certain have large scale production traffic on their Node.js deployments. There are surely more that have not revealed themselves either publicly or privately to us at SL. There are also some lesser-known organizations and startups with big scale and plenty of well-known companies with modest scale.
It would be great for the whole community if more of those people working at scale or at well-known organizations would make their stories public. It would help the many developers trying to get approval to use Node at their organization who are faced with “but only Paypal, Walmart Labs & Yahoo use Node” from their coworkers.
Recently I looked up a bunch of the companies I know are using Node to see if they’d publicly disclosed it anywhere. Sometimes they’ll have a job posting or it’ll be on someone’s resume. For example, one can find references to Siemens, Dell, Sony & Citi this way. If one is trying to convince a more traditional group outside of silicon valley, those kinds of names can help it feel more safe than quoting Groupon, Voxer & eBay. There are plenty plenty more.
Issac