<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Peter J Etheridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petergi@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">petergi@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>yaws or mochiweb?</div><div>mnesia or mongoDB?</div><div>chicago boss or ...?</div><div>XML or JSon?</div><div>intellij idea or eclipse?</div><div>and before i buy a server, Win or Linux or ...? </div></blockquote></div><br>If I had freedom of choice and problem notwithstanding:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Webmachine or Cowboy for the web server. Proper RESTful approaches are too good to leave up.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Postgresql for smaller databases (up to 5-10 terabytes in size roughly). After that, it depends on the CAP theorem and if you lean CP or AP. For the latter, Riak.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Never pick a "framework", since they always limit you in the long run. If I *had* to, I would research nitrogen or n2o.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Transit for data interchange, naturally (<a href="https://github.com/isaiah/transit-erlang">https://github.com/isaiah/transit-erlang</a>)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">acme(1) or sam(1) as the editor (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29</a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29</a>) YMMV a bit here :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">FreeBSD on the server, preferably. If not, Illumos/SmartOS. Then OpenBSD, then Linux. Windows is not for serious work, but a toy for computer gaming.<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">J.</div>
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