How Facebook uses Erlang for real-time chat - Off the Grid!!From: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919 One of the things I like most about working at Facebook is the ability to launch products that are (almost) immediately used by millions of people. Unlike a three-guys-in-a-garage startup, we don't have the luxury of scaling out infrastructure to keep pace with user growth; when your feature's userbase will go from 0 to 70 million practica
