[erlang-questions] If you make WhatsApp today...

Gianfranco Alongi gianfranco.alongi@REDACTED
Sun Oct 11 20:50:16 CEST 2015


This is the correct answer.

On Sunday, 11 October 2015, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Vimal Kumar <vimal7370@REDACTED
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Imagine that WhatsApp does not exist today. If you are asked to write
> > WhatsApp in Erlang and scale it like how they successfully did, will you
> > still be opting for Mnesia, or something else like Riak?
>
> Neither - I'd define an API that I'd use and implement it with any
> appropriate database. Then *if* the app took off and I ran into performance
> problems I'd tweak whatever law behind the API. If the application never
> flew I'd be saved the trouble of making an efficient back-end.
>
> To implement the API I'd choose whatever I was most comfortable with.
>
> My goal would be to get something up and running as soon as possible
> and get users - and not worry about implementation details.
>
> As the wise man said "Premature optimisation is the root of all evil".
>
> I'd probably use the file system, then ets or dets and "roll my own" first.
>
> Data bases using *only* the file system and simple locking can get you
> a lot of milage before you need to optimize :-)
>
>
> /Joe
>
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
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