Hey guys, just wanted to share a story.

Some time ago I inherited the code base for a realtime web app written in 
nodejs that was old, very unstable, and leaking memory left and right. As 
we decided to rewrite everything, I spent a month prototyping a few 
different solutions:

- python + pushpin + nginx 
- clojure + redis + nginx 
- go
- elixir + rethinkdb + postgres

It just bothered me that I had to use so many moving parts or use worse 
languages like go.

Then it hit me: Chicago Boss is the perfect framework for this kind of 
problem. To cut the story short, it only took me 1/3 of the time to write 
the prototype, it uses less moving parts (I ditched all external services 
like pushpin or nginx push module) and performs very well.

So, I confess I was bearish on Chicago Boss, pmods being deprecated, Evan 
leaving and all. But this little experiment made me realize that Chicago 
Boss still fills a niche that others don't. Elixir/phoenix is a nice stack, 
but I find Erlang much more elegant and succinct. 

So, is anybody else still using Chicago Boss? How can we make it relevant 
again?

BTW, thanks Dmitry for carrying the torch forward and, if there's anyone 
still listening, let's make some noise!

rlander

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