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Great use for Erlang (e.g. WhatsApp)? Given that Erlang can scale near linearly with more cores and it's not uncommon to have 100+ cores for a single Power8 no
by tiffanyh 12y ago
Great use for Erlang (e.g. WhatsApp)?
Given that Erlang can scale near linearly with more cores and it's not uncommon to have 100+ cores for a single Power8 node - it makes me wonder how much investigation has gone into Power8 as an architecture for companies who have highly network centric products like WhatsApp.
Edit: WhatsApp is a highly network centric product and they also run on FreeBSD / Erlang.
Edit 2: If you want to try out Power8, OVH has cloud compute available of Power8 at https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml https://www.runabove.com/instances/ibm-power8.xml
- yellowapple 12y agoI think that scalability aspect is precisely why Google (IIRC) is on the OpenPOWER board; there's been hinting that they're interested in developing their own server boards in-house based on POWER8 (or perhaps a future generation).