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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
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.
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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...
"""
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
"""
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.