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ManFromUranus on Sept 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M ...

From the article:

* SoftLayer is their cloud provider, bare metal machines, fairly isolated within the network, dual datacenter configuration

Softlayer is an IBM Company, so ultimately it DOES require an IBM scale company to run this ( at some point in the chain).

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