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> Good luck doing that again elsewhere If keep doing stuff because its done elsewhere we stop innovating. > it reminds me of WhatsApp's decision to write thei
by dna_polymerase 9y ago
> Good luck doing that again elsewhere
If keep doing stuff because its done elsewhere we stop innovating.
> it reminds me of WhatsApp's decision to write their backend in Erlang.
WhatsApp's decision to use erlang is based upon totally valid points. In fact Erlangs concurrency model made scaling so easy for them, they only needed 50 engineers overall for handling 50B messages a day. [0]
You might not know Pony, that doesn't mean it couldn't make sense for someone else.
[0]: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...