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Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Erlang Solutions · Mar 8, 2014 · 49m 15s
What this video covers
Rick Reed of WhatsApp explains at Erlang Factory 2014 how the service scaled to billions of messages with a very small engineering team. He covers the FreeBSD and Erlang stack, Mnesia usage, server counts and bottleneck work.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
The go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“how small their team was compared to the volume and complexity of the operation.”
“watch this talk and imagine trying to recreate that system with only a handful of server engineers”
“One of my favorite talks is by Rick Reed about scaling Erlang at WhatsApp.”