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Paolo D'Incau
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Paolo D'Incau's personal blog at pdincau.wordpress.com covers programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog as a source, notably an interview with WhatsApp engineer Eugene Fooksman in which the team says Erlang is largely why they serve huge numbers of connections. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Introduction to erlang and other useful stuff
What Hacker News says?
I don't know I found the article decent _for_ being on wired. Didn't expect BEAM VM internals there... > I feel the language choice is probably the least contributing factor in terms of what's interesting at that scale. However, as they say "right from the horses' mouths", WhatsApp engineers have said that Erlang and FreeBSD are critical tools for their success. One can accuse them of lying, of course, but why? Here…
Comment linking /2013/03/27/an-interview-with-e..
on “Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users”Submitted How to run easily your Erlang software (part I) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt is an hour talk and it specifically mentions how Erlang was used and how it gave them a strategic advantage. I have found other mentions about it, perhaps on Erlang mail lists, here is an interview with Eugene Fooksman: https://pdincau.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/an-interview-with-e... """ And the consensus in our team is that it is largely because of Erlang. We’re managing to serve huge amount of connections from s…
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on “Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users”Submitted An interview with Michael Williams as a story · 1 points
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