How WhatsApp Scaled to Billions of Messages with Erlang

Erlang Solutions · Talk · YouTube title: Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

Why it's here

The go-to talk showing how Erlang let a tiny team run a massive messaging system.

What it covers

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.