We, at Yakaz, use Erlang to power several services of Yakaz.com. We chose this language for its scability and reliability orientations: the website won't suffer from a shutdown or a crash of a server, thanks to Erlang's failover and distribution features. It even provides ways to upgrade a service without stopping and restarting it! The latter is a particularily valuable feature, because it allows us to prevent any service disruption on Yakaz.com: users won't experience half-loaded classifieds search results, loss of their chat session in the middle of a conversation with a neighbour or scary messages from their browser because the connection was closed unexpectedly. (...)
Read Jean-Sebastien's complete article on Yakaz Engineering Blog.
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