Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Erlang Solutions
Why leaders watch it
Case study of how a very small team served billions of users by choosing simple, proven tools and tight focus.
Rick Reed of WhatsApp explains at Erlang Factory 2014 how the service scaled to billions of messages with a very small engineering team. He covers the FreeBSD and Erlang stack, Mnesia usage, server counts and bottleneck work.
Takeaways
- Small teams can serve huge scale
- Choose boring, well-understood tools
- Focus on measured bottlenecks, not guesses
Topics: Engineering & technical leadership, Org design & scaling
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