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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by pessimizer on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:06PM (#28992466)
Whatsapp:Erlang as Discord:Elixir. The effectiveness of the teams might more be the effectiveness of OTP/BEAM for network applications.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by def_true_false on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:52PM (#29002801)
Indeed. Discord even has a handful of blog posts about running into its limits.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by dnautics on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:37PM (#28994044)
almost certainly part of it but not the whole story.
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