Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat
Simon Willison - Simon Willison - May 15, 2008Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat. The new Facebook Chat uses Comet (long polling with a hidden iframe) against a custom web / chat server written in Erlang, designed to handle a launch to all 70 million users at once. It was tested using a âdark launchâ? period where live pages simulated chat request traffic without showing any visible UI.
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» yunomu11 (Yusuke Nomura): RT @benymd_bot: @yunomu11 さんの特徴語。ビルド,ラブライブ,Haskell,Java,ライブラリ,パーサ,はてなブログ,コンパイル,モナド,面白い,バグ,プログラマ,TARI TARI,コード,サーバ,関数,AWS,Erlang,API,データ,クォー…
» macintux (John Daily): RT @aeden: I’ll be speaking at @strangeloop_stl on Erlang for Authoritative DNS: https://t.co/Jx4GoQ0ByY - I’m so excited!
» FrancescoC (Francesco Cesarini): RT @joeerl: reading the program of #erlang users confernce http://t.co/dsYbZiuKMy
this is going to be *very* interesting, and in june in st…
» cmeik (Chris Meiklejohn): RT @aeden: I’ll be speaking at @strangeloop_stl on Erlang for Authoritative DNS: https://t.co/Jx4GoQ0ByY - I’m so excited!
» ErlangInfo (Erlang!): RT @aeden: I’ll be speaking at @strangeloop_stl on Erlang for Authoritative DNS: https://t.co/Jx4GoQ0ByY - I’m so excited!
» ErlangInfo (Erlang!): RT @JonGretar: An suggestion for a good connection pool lib for using with eredis? #erlang #lazytweet
» fernandoike (fernandoike): RT @joeerl: reading the program of #erlang users confernce http://t.co/dsYbZiuKMy
this is going to be *very* interesting, and in june in st…
» ErlangInfo (Erlang!): RT @agisanast: ok, it’s actually an IRC bot I’ve been writing in #erlang.. https://t.co/Yo5Dbc18PV
» ErlangInfo (Erlang!): RT @jimmyhwang: Erlang is more interesting than I thought. Many concepts in Golang influenced from Erlang. Also, first time playing with “r…
» ErlangInfo (Erlang!): RT @joeerl: reading the program of #erlang users confernce http://t.co/dsYbZiuKMy
this is going to be *very* interesting, and in june in st…
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