title: request advice converting project to node.js
body: <p>Our company processes machine data. We get machine reports from a socket connection and write the data to mysql tables. Then, other scripts and threads written in python and ruby pull these records out and process the data, saving them back to the database and notify our clients on their machines health. </p>
  
  <p>I want to convert these processes to node.js But, i have to do it kinda incrementally. Instead of doing so much writing back and forth to the database, I would like to hand the data off from our input process to a node server, that will process everything at once. </p>
  
  <p>I suppose i can modify our input scripts to hand off the raw bytes we get from the machines or I could process them as JSON. I had thought about writing the new processes using a node http server, but that seems like some overhead. I have thought websockets may be a better solution, but I am looking for ideas.. thanks</p>