How do you support 450 million users with only 32 engineers? For WhatsApp, acquired earlier this week by Facebook, the answer is Erlang, a programming language developed in the ’80s that is finally ...

Earlier this month, in a post to his Facebook page, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that his company's instant messaging service is now used by more than 900 million people. And then Facebook CEO Mark ...

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This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents. There are multiple solutions to develop high-available and reliable services that ...

The hardware we rely on is changing rapidly as ever-faster chips are replaced by ever-increasing numbers of cores. As a result, concurrency and parallelism, niche features today, will soon be a basic ...