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i think the take-away here is the "dark launch" mentioned in the last paragraph, not necessarily the behind the scenes tech. although nice win for erlang here.
by siculars 18y ago
i think the take-away here is the "dark launch" mentioned in the last paragraph, not necessarily the behind the scenes tech. although nice win for erlang here.
first time i have heard a company mention, publicly, about pushing features behind the scenes and testing in realtime. ajax makes this functionality possible nowadays.
good job facebook.
- interknot 18y agoDark launching is cool, but Google did it last year with Gmail Chat: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6202268628085731280 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6202268628085731280