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by jen20 1597 days ago
Is there some kind of paper or public info that details the Erlang usage? I'd never heard that before!
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> Amazon SimpleDB is a distributed database written in Erlang[1] by Amazon.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_SimpleDB

> Highly Available – It’s Amazon. Running Erlang. Whoa.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110623221347/http://www.satine...

Thanks - very interesting! I’d always assumed it was Java, like many AWS services.