Thanks for the response! I read it yesterday and thought about it and did some investigation and just read it again today. You've convinced me to go with Phoeni

Thanks for the response! I read it yesterday and thought about it and did some investigation and just read it again today. You've convinced me to go with Phoenix for a couple weeks and see how that goes. I think what sold me was you selling me on plug, as I think that is the correct solution and answers the core issue (that I was having trouble articulating.) I am definitely not working on the %80 use case you're targeting, in fact, the best explanation of what I'm doing is I'm competing with you. I agree with you on the choice of elixir, and I agree with you about the direction of connected devices but we have some philosophical differences in solution. (One could say you're coming from the web world, and I am coming from the native world.) But I will work on breaking out my solutions, as much as possible, into plugs so that people using phoenix can use them.... and if I end up pulling in some N2O I'll probably wrap it as a plug. And since phoenix is based on plugs and lets you build a pipeline, this may be pretty convenient. Thanks again for your work, contributions to making Elixir the Next Big Thing and your answers above!