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Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
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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.
The go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.
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