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Prime candidate is any highly scalable TCP socket server. Currently, there's no better language for it
by cft 12y ago
Prime candidate is any highly scalable TCP socket server. Currently, there's no better language for it
- pjmlp 12y agoErlang? That switch that is routing your phone calls?
- kasey_junk 12y agoAlmost certainly not TCP socket based nor built on commodity hardware.
- coldtea 12y agoIt hasn't rooted anybody's phone calls for a long time. Even Ericsson doesn't use Erlang based phone routing anymore...
- rdtsc 12y agoErlang is a better for it. WhatsApp runs their infrastructure on it. Can easily do millions of concurrent TCP connections on a single machine.