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Ahem. No, it's not. The new system is MySQL for the datastore, a huge piece of C++ for the "backend" and PHP for the front end.

The script that copies the data from the old system to the new one is what they wrote in Erlang.



Don't you know anything? Every submission needs an attention-grabbing, largely inaccurate title! It's a rule!

"Yahoo Switches to Erlang" would have been even better!!!


I think the PHP stuff uses Symfony as a Framework. There was an entry on the Symfony blog about it a year ago: http://bit.ly/jRO9S


I was wondering about that...I remember shortly after your acquisition there were a number of job postings for C++ programmers on your blog.


@Joshu How involved are you still over at Yahoo?


I'm not. I've been gone three months now.




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