WhatsApp on FreeBSD and Erlang at Massive Scale

iX · Talk · 54 min · 2014 · YouTube title: Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users

Why it's here

Pointed to as a rare look at how a tiny engineering team ran WhatsApp's massive scale on FreeBSD and Erlang.

What it covers

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.