The Eternal Novice Trap
For a long time it was fashionable to write server side java using POJOs and Spring running in Tomcat or Jetty, and you could get very far just being very good at Java and Spring.  You still can.<p>With the advent and surging popularity of multiple server-side alternatives to Java such as Javascript via Node.js, Python, Go, and others, Java is now viewed as "slow to startup" in comparison and therefore less suitable for cloud-scale deployments that must spin-up instances very quickly to handle the massive bursts of traffic that cloud-scale platforms have been designed to service.<p>I'm curious what people think is the best alternative to Java for cloud-scale deployments.  Javascript - ala Node.js?  Python?  Go? Something else entirely?