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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by Cthulhu_ on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:52AM (#17204192)
Are you sure about that? Is Hack / PHP powerful enough to handle billions of messages an hour? If so, i'm impressed.

But I doubt it and I'm sure you're wrong about what runs Messenger. No company, least of all the Facebook scale ones use just one language for everything.

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by dpark on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:34AM (#17204675)
Of course the backing service is not PHP. That would be a particularly poor choice for a high volume messaging statement. They originally wrote it in Erlang and later rewrote it in C++.

https://www.quora.com/When-did-Facebook-switch-away-from-usi...

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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook by dpark on Friday June 01, 2018 @10:44AM (#17205715)
statement -> service

sigh

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