54:14Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users
31K views • 11 years ago
iX
Rick Reed of WhatsApp speaks at MeetBSD about running a messaging service on FreeBSD and Erlang at huge scale. He covers the stack, tuning and the challenges of millions of connections per host.
49:15Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
50K views • 12 years ago
Erlang Solutions
Rick Reed of WhatsApp explains at Erlang Factory 2014 how the service scaled to billions of messages with a very small engineering team. He covers the FreeBSD and Erlang stack, Mnesia usage, server counts and bottleneck work.
29:13Jim Goetz and Jan Koum at Startup School SV 2014
38K views • 12 years ago
Y Combinator
A Startup School SV 2014 conversation between Sequoia's Jim Goetz and WhatsApp founder Jan Koum. They discuss how Sequoia pursued WhatsApp, its tiny engineering team, and how it handled growth and support.
2:50:36Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg
9.8M views • 1 year ago
PowerfulJRE
A nearly three-hour Joe Rogan interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, covering Meta's products, AI, smart glasses, and his views on culture and company direction. The conversation is wide-ranging and long-form.