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Re:How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat by rjurney on Monday February 08, 2010 @12:10AM (#1109049)
Given how easy it is to scale an Erlang app to provide incredible reliability in concurrent systems - as that is what the entire language is optimized for - this is pretty unlikely.
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Re:How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat by axod on Monday February 08, 2010 @05:04AM (#1109439)
Is chat a 'concurrent system'? :/
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Re:How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat by rjurney on Monday February 08, 2010 @01:45PM (#1110351)
Yeah.
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