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by sangnoir 1029 days ago
> It's true that fully meshed distribution won't fly for Google or Amazon scale.

I'm not sure I agree at product level: WhatsApp seems to be scaling rather well. I can't say if their use of Erlang is "fully meshed distribution" or not, but it seems to be flying just fine as the world's number 1 messaging platform.