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Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

Erlang Solutions · 6 recommenders · 10 months

Rick Reed of WhatsApp explains at Erlang Factory 2014 how the service scaled to billions of messages with a very small engineering team. He covers the FreeBSD and Erlang stack, Mnesia usage, server counts and bottleneck work.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: The go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.

6 recommenders3 strong recommendations2014–2022
Distributed systemsFunctional programmingSoftware performance & optimization#erlang#whatsapp#scalability#mnesia#freebsd#performance

“watch this talk and imagine trying to recreate that system with only a handful of server engineers”

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