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Testimonials > Mabber chooses ejabberd
In february 2006, after the launch of Mabber service, Nico Lumma described the architecture behind Mabber:
After a while we found out that ejabberd looked like the right choice for us. But we hesitatet. Erlang. Ever heard of that language? Neither did we. Jens mumbled: “it’s like dutch, I can kind of guess what it means, but I can’t write it.” We figured that all other jabber daemons where not as good for a large server farm as ejabberd is, so we took the bitter pill, read some Erlang docs, installed ejabberd and started to appreciate Erlang. We did some load testing, found out that one old testserver could easily handle 20000 concurrent users. In one test scenario, the test tool crashed before the server reached the limit. Our findings were later confirmed, much to our relief.
