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by chriogenix 4114 days ago
not surprising when you realize how much volume is going through these systems concurrently.
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I don't think bet365 does the kind of volumes a popular betting exchange would, but I do agree they are probably the kinds of traffic volume that can benefit from Erlang.
Exchange workloads are trivial, but sports betting requires a lot more work per transaction. This is mostly to do with liability management. I talk a little about this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUPmmUU3yY