Nick thanks for your valuable input, My developers are already getting up to speed and are loving CB/Erlang, Elixir is next. 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, 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/15f4ff12-5822-4a5b-bc26-b9cea7a0856f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
