According to SAP HANA Product Management Director Thomas Jung, who joned Alex Williams for this 80th installment of The New Stack Analysts podcast, an intensive years’ worth of development went into preparing standard Node.js for enterprise customers of SAP’s high-performance application server.

“We have a product installer built around it. We have a controller framework that monitors instances of the Node engine, scales it up, scales it down, that runs it isolated per service,” said Jung, adding that its support features include a built-in, web browser-based, interactive debugger.

Also on hand for the discussion was RedMonk principal analyst and co-founder Stephen O’Grady, who said of SAP HANA’s Node.js support, “it’s embracing the lightweight nature, the versatility of the platform, its embed-ability.”

“It’s essentially a platform that solves a very specific set of needs very neatly,” O’Grady observed.