> doing it all with 8 backend engineers Wait, what? Whatsapp had 25 backend engineers in 2016, and they use almost exclusively Erlang, not Elixir. They’ve said

> doing it all with 8 backend engineers Wait, what? Whatsapp had 25 backend engineers in 2016, and they use almost exclusively Erlang, not Elixir. They’ve said many times that the Erlang platform has allowed them to do a lot with a small team, but let’s not turn their story into an urban legend... Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87lW4Llsj7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87lW4Llsj7E (2:20)