Karim, On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:49:38 PM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: > > Nick one more quick question, do you think Riak would be the best choice > as far as databases to use with CB? >
If a NoSQLDB is right for your project, Riak would be a good choice. However, Postgresql also has allot to offer as well. -- Nick > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:13:04 PM UTC-6, Nick Pavlica wrote: >> >> Karim, >> >> On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 5:02:42 PM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: >>> >>> Nick thanks for your valuable input, >>> >>> My developers are already getting up to speed and are loving CB/Erlang, >>> Elixir is next. >>> >> >> Awesome, happy they are loving it! >> >> As far as developing the product I described in 6 months that is >>> obviously not going to be the >>> full feature set of Trip Advisor as we don't even need that much, only >>> the components I mentioned >>> above. >>> >> >> Thanks for the clarification! Please share the site with us when your >> ready! >> >> -- Nick >> >> >> >>> >>> >> Thanks, >>> Karim >>> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> On Monday, January 27, 2014 2:01:32 PM UTC-6, Nick Pavlica wrote: >>>> >>>> Karim, >>>> >>>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:26:43 AM UTC-7, Karim Dahmani wrote: >>>>> >>>>> They are slowly getting convinced, but they adamantly want to stick to >>>>> ChicagoBoss over Zotonic >>>>> if we are going to use Erlang which we will, since I have had a very >>>>> good experience back in >>>>> 2001 when I was involved (as a partner not as a developer) in creating >>>>> a layer 5 switch totally built in erlang. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Erlang is an excellent language/runtime for web applications, and >>>> offers a number of advantages over the other languages and frameworks >>>> mentioned in this thread. Additionally, Elixer, another language for the >>>> EVM, can be used as well. Elixer is gaining allot of support from some >>>> serious players in the Ruby/Ruby On Rails community like Dave Thomas. >>>> Your >>>> developers should pick up enough Erlang/Elixer quickly enough that they >>>> can >>>> get the the basics done, and grow from there. If they can't, you should >>>> reconsider the real value of your team. Over the long run, I think you, >>>> and your team would be happier with ChicagoBoss. Going with a general >>>> purpose framework will allow you to more easily grow into your real >>>> requirements :) >>>> >>>> >>>>> As I had mentioned previously we are building a site that is similar >>>>> to Trip Advisor but for the online gambling >>>>> industry, so if we are going to be starting from scratch with CB and >>>>> would have to create all the following modules >>>>> >>>>> 1. CMS (with all the standard functionality such as seo modules, RSS >>>>> feeds, support for media embedding >>>>> 2. Forum >>>>> 3. Social Media integration (Facebook login and registration and >>>>> profile synching) >>>>> 4. Review modules >>>>> >>>>> Could something like this be done in 6 months with 4-5 developers >>>>> using CB? >>>>> >>>> >>>> You should have a good start in 6 months, but it seems a little naive >>>> to think that you will be at parity with a site like Trip Advisor that has >>>> been under development for years. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> -- Nick >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Thanks again! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, January 24, 2014 3:13:00 AM UTC-6, David Welton wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> > Thanks for your reply, I have decided to use some sort of Erlang >>>>>> Framwework >>>>>> > to develop a site that is similar in features to >>>>>> > Trip Advisor, we have thrown away 3 complete rewrites in PHP, my >>>>>> biggest >>>>>> > issue right now is that my developers are pushing >>>>>> > really hard to go with Django, and they tell me that Erlang is not >>>>>> well >>>>>> > suited to this type of project and there are no large scale >>>>>> > websites that use Erlang, and information I can use to prove my >>>>>> point would >>>>>> > be of great help. I do have to say that they have >>>>>> > no experience with Erlang but my take is that they can definitely >>>>>> learn it. >>>>>> >>>>>> If you hired them to code, presumably they know what they are doing >>>>>> and are giving you good advice, no? >>>>>> >>>>>> For *most* new sites, the difficult problem is finding product/market >>>>>> fit - can we get the right mix of features/community/whatever to make >>>>>> it successful? This often requires rapid iteration - adding new >>>>>> stuff, trying new ideas, and with something like Django, or Ruby on >>>>>> Rails, or even PHP, you're more likely to find a lot of code to use >>>>>> out of the box. >>>>>> >>>>>> Where Erlang is really good is that it uses fewer resources to >>>>>> accomplish the same thing. One area where Erlang *really* shines is >>>>>> if you need to use web sockets. Those just aren't a good fit for >>>>>> Rails or Django. For some kinds of projects, these things are >>>>>> critical - for many, though, they are not. >>>>>> >>>>>> There are certainly large and well-known projects that utilize >>>>>> Erlang. >>>>>> Whatsapp. Facebook used to use it for their chat system >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> David N. Welton >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.welton.it/davidw/ >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.dedasys.com/ >>>>>> >>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/094b8e72-6f37-43cc-9299-3fb8db96bd0c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
