Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users
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Why leaders watch it
Shows how a tiny engineering team ran a service for hundreds of millions of users through simple tools and focus.
Rick Reed of WhatsApp speaks at MeetBSD about running a messaging service on FreeBSD and Erlang at huge scale. He covers the stack, tuning and the challenges of millions of connections per host.
Takeaways
- Small teams can run huge scale
- Keep the stack simple
- Focus on reliability and monitoring
Topics: Engineering & technical leadership, Company case studies
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