WhatsApp is a chatting application written in Erlang. Let us have a discussion on how WhatsApp managed to run 3 million TCP connections on each FreeBSD server.
WhatsApp has the following metrics
42 Billion messages a day
1 Billion users
3 Million connections!!
0:00 Intro
2:00 How WhatsApp reached 1,2 then 3 Million Connection
7:00 How Many Processes?
10:00 Server Side Load Balancing
13:50 Client Side Load Balancing
Resources
https://blog.whatsapp.com/1-million-is-so-2011
https://blog.whatsapp.com/on-e-millio-n
https://developers.facebook.com/videos/f8-2016/a-look-at-whatsapp-engineering-for-success-at-scale/
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