Yariv Sadan on ejabberd scalability
In august 2006, Yariv Sadan explains why Erlang is a great language to develop with. He comes to talk about ejabberd scalability:
When people talk about Erlang, they usually mention how Erlang is great for building concurrent, distributed, highly-available, fault-tolerant, systems; it powers phone switches with nine nines availability; the AXD 301 switch has 850K lines of Erlang code; Yaws scales with large numbers of connections; ejabberd is the most scalable XMPP server; and all sorts of such heavy-sounding accomplishments.
You can read the full article on his blog:
Ericsson’s Biggest PR Blunder: Forgetting to Tell Us That Erlang Programming Is FUN