To put things in perspective my goto stack is Django/Celery/RabbitMQ/PostgreSQL. Chicago Boss is quite impressive in that it replaces all of that (except Postgr

To put things in perspective my goto stack is Django/Celery/RabbitMQ/PostgreSQL. Chicago Boss is quite impressive in that it replaces all of that (except PostgreSQL, though for an adequate project you could use mnesia instead) in just one piece of software, thanks largely to Erlang/OTP. With boss_mq you get your websocket/comet stuff for free, while with Django the best I found so far is to use the RabbitMQ-WebStomp plugin. The less impressive part is the general lack of polish: for instance the Django templating system is quite forgiving when it comes to types and data you feed it with. Chicago Boss not at all, which can be frustrating. The lack of community around Chicago Boss is probably the biggest downside though. Anyway I got a working demo product, which was good enough to land a bigger project. For that one I moved back to my usual stack, to avoid codebase fragmentation. I'll probably give Elixir and Dynamo a try if I get an adequate project...