erlang

The Heroku Routing team does a lot of work with Erlang, both
in terms of development and maintenance , to make sure the platform scales smoothly
as it continues to grow.

Over time we've learned some hard-earned lessons about making systems that can
scale with some amounts of reliability (or rather, we've definitely learned what doesn't work), and about what kind of operational work we may expect to have
to do in anger.

This kind of knowledge usually remains embedded within the teams that develop
it, and tends to die when individuals leave or change roles. When new members
join the team, it…