When I wonder why Facebook doesn't have problem scaling their chat? Oh, erlang + flat files.
I can't wait for Twitter to move to Java or PHP so people finally STFU about Rails.
Twitter moving away from rails doens't make rails look bad, it makes everyone at Twitter look like the biggest jackasses in history.
"We can't get this wrench to hit this nail hard enough, so lets buy another brand of wrench instead of a hammer and see if that works."
A quick Google of "erlang facebook chat flat file" returns your initial post, would love to read more about that if have anything.
All tools tend to look like hammers when all problems are seen as a subset of nails.
When I wonder why Facebook doesn't have problem scaling their chat? Oh, erlang + flat files.
I can't wait for Twitter to move to Java or PHP so people finally STFU about Rails.
Twitter moving away from rails doens't make rails look bad, it makes everyone at Twitter look like the biggest jackasses in history.
"We can't get this wrench to hit this nail hard enough, so lets buy another brand of wrench instead of a hammer and see if that works."