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Sep 20, 2016 · Operations

WhatsApp Scaling Architecture: Lessons from Two Years of Growth

Over the past two years WhatsApp has dramatically expanded its user base, hardware, and traffic while maintaining a tiny engineering team, highlighting the challenges of massive scalability, Erlang‑based distributed design, Mnesia database bottlenecks, decoupling strategies, and operational patches required to keep the service reliable.