How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python at Mixpanel Engineering (Masa aka Sekimura)

Sep 01, 2011

How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python at Mixpanel Engineering

we originally wrote the server in Erlang (with MochiWeb) two years ago. After two years of iteration, the code has become difficult to maintain. No one on our team is an Erlang expert, and we have had trouble debugging downtime and performance problems. So, we decided to rewrite it in Python, the de-facto language at Mixpanel.

via code.mixpanel.com

Sep 1, 2011 9:55:26 PM

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