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You can tell someone who hasn't had broad professional experience when they are aghast at the idea of a multi-technology stack like this. The reality is any company bigger than startup size is going to be using lots of different technologies for lots of different things, for a variety of reasons. Hopefully all good but sometimes not so good.

I'm curious about the choices that lead to doing the API in PHP/Symfony as opposed to Node, though. I've written APIs in both PHP and Node and it seems to me that Node has the advantage in terms of being more lightweight for the task. So I'd love to hear what Jarrod sees as the advantages PHP presents that make it a better fit.

EDIT:

Got the following response to the question on Twitter, for anyone else curious:

> I have but honestly I'm just not comfortable enough yet w/ Node to a jump. :) We're capable and productive w/ PHP. Maybe in time.

So, totally solid reason. :)