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		gt565k on Sept 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Facebook Copes with Scale: Three Approaches Check out whats app's architecture "Our results have demonstrated the fantastic scalability of Erlang, and in this talk we will share some of the discoveries and modifications we have made along the path to supporting millions of connected users per server. " https://vimeo.com/44312354 Some of the speculations about why facebook bought them is their architecture build on top of Erlang

simonw on Sept 18, 2015 [–]

Facebook Chat was originally written in Erlang: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/chat-sta... - but they ended up switching it from Erlang to C++: https://www.quora.com/When-did-Facebook-switch-away-from-usi...

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