Chicago Erlang Users - December 2011

Chicago Boss: Plastic Explosives for the Web

by Evan Miller

Can't decide what to give yourself for Hanukkah this year? Give the gift of CHICAGO BOSS, the server-side web framework that does it all!

Render complex web pages in a matter of milliseconds Choreograph thousands of Comet connections without setting off pagers Keep a load of your SQL/NoSQL database with automatic caching Chicago Boss makes it FAST and FUN to write RELIABLE websites that keep your users smiling and let your ops people enter REM sleep.

In this talk Evan will build a simple web application that normally requires a combination of Rails, Node.js, Memcached, and Postfix. He'll discuss the dark compiler magic that allows you to write a full-featured MVC website in Erlang without resorting to proplists:get_value or writing a recursive function.

And they said it couldn't be done!