Caffeine – a new way to write mobile app backends

[webmaven]

I suppose it was inevitable that someone would put a 'new and improved' gloss on a more traditional architecture (in this case, apparently Python + Postgres, with the addition of some binary protocol like Protobufs), but frankly the gratuitous slams on JS and NoSQL just make this look like an ill informed backlash.

[qhoc]

So why is this better than how we do it today? Let say just MongoDB and node.js?