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WhatsApp is of comparable scale and is doing this with 100x less servers. As per [1], in March 2014 they were handling 20B messages/day (with 600M pics, 100M v
by jn4 12y ago
WhatsApp is of comparable scale and is doing this with 100x less servers.
As per [1], in March 2014 they were handling 20B messages/day (with 600M pics, 100M videos) with just about 550 servers.
My guess would be that, every day more photos are shared on WhatsApp than on FB.
Major difference: At present, WhatsApp does not "keep" your messages or sell "you" to advertisers.
[1] http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-to-nearly-500-million-users-11000-cores-an.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/3/31/how-whatsapp-grew-...
- harel 12y agoIts not comparable scale. WhatsApp are shifting messages from point A to point B and that's it. Even 100x less servers is still a LOT of servers just or that. They don't store data, just traffic it from one user to another.