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digitalmars.D - WhatsApp: a killer app for erlang and FreeBSD

Just ran across this talk and blog post from earlier this year, 
interesting how they leveraged the great concurrency of erlang 
and efficiency and instrumentability of FreeBSD to build a highly 
scalable mobile chat app with few servers and a very small team:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs

Something for D people to think about as we try to come up with 
our killer app. ;)
Sep 07 2014