Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by morley on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:19AM
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I'd say one talk at an erlang conference three years ago falls into the umbrella of not talking much. The article doesn't say "they never talk about engineering."
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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users
by rdtsc on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @10:36AM
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It is an hour talk and it specifically mentions how Erlang was used and how it gave them a strategic advantage.
I have found other mentions about it, perhaps on Erlang mail lists, here is an interview with Eugene Fooksman:
https://pdincau.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/an-interview-with-e...
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And the consensus in our team is that it is largely because of Erlang. We’re managing to serve huge amount of connections from single front-end server (this is from last year’s Erlang
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I don't know how much clearer can it get.
Here is another directly from their website:
https://blog.whatsapp.com/196/1-million-is-so-2011
It is a bit older they clearly indicate that FreeBSD and Erlang are key and critical elements that let them operate they way they do.