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Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
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.

ErlangMnesiaWhatsApp
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WhatsApp Scaling Architecture: Lessons from Two Years of Growth
Architect
Architect
Jun 26, 2016 · Backend Development

WhatsApp Architecture: High‑Scalability Design and Engineering Insights

The article analyzes WhatsApp's high‑scalability backend architecture, detailing its Erlang‑based server stack, massive user statistics, hardware deployment, custom protocols, performance‑tuning tools, and lessons learned from scaling to billions of messages with a tiny engineering team.

ErlangHigh AvailabilityPerformance Optimization
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WhatsApp Architecture: High‑Scalability Design and Engineering Insights
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
May 27, 2015 · Backend Development

WhatsApp’s High‑Reliability Architecture for 450 Million Users

This article examines WhatsApp’s high‑reliability architecture that supports 450 million users, detailing its Erlang‑based backend, hardware choices, scaling techniques, performance metrics, monitoring tools, and lessons learned from achieving up to two million concurrent connections on a single server.

BackendErlangHigh Availability
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WhatsApp’s High‑Reliability Architecture for 450 Million Users