Guys who designed the LMAX 'disrupter' for Betfair have a good talk about how much trading these betting sites do per second http://www.infoq.com/presentations/

Guys who designed the LMAX 'disrupter' for Betfair have a good talk about how much trading these betting sites do per second http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX http://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX and how concurrency is a major issue, Erlang makes sense even if they have to search for replacement devs