&gt; I&#x27;ve used node on several high-volume production apps, and I haven&#x27;t seen any instability.<p>Not sure if this is what you meant, but I read the ancestor comment not as being about &quot;will the process crash randomly?&quot; but &quot;will an upgrade break something in my app?&quot;<p>It&#x27;s just that I&#x27;ve seen whole comment threads go by with people tripping over this misunderstanding without ever acknowledging it.