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By puredanger
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Published: Aug 07 2008 / 15:52

Behind the Scenes at Facebook: Scaling Up FBChat Using Erlang
The most resource-intensive operation performed in a chat system is not sending messages. It is rather keeping each online user aware of the online-idle-offline states of their friends, so that conversations can begin.
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