{"id":24005,"date":"2015-04-27T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=24005"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:23:28","slug":"whatsapp-passes-800000000-active-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/27\/whatsapp-passes-800000000-active-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp passes 800,000,000 active users"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24006\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/27\/whatsapp-passes-800000000-active-users\/whatsapp-numbers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?fit=1400%2C796&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1400,796\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"whatsapp-numbers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?fit=660%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24006\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers-500x284.png?resize=500%2C284&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"whatsapp-numbers\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?resize=500%2C284&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?resize=1024%2C582&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whatsapp-numbers.png?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch is reporting on <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/04\/21\/not-hatin-just-sayin\/\">WhatsApp passing the 800,000,000 active users mark<\/a>. \u00a0Almost exactly a year ago,<a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/24\/whatsapp-passes-500000000-active-users\/\"> it was at 500 million active users<\/a>. \u00a0I don&#8217;t care much about WhatsApp&#8217;s business or service, but from the technical point of view this is quite significant. \u00a0That&#8217;s almost a million active users acquired every day for the last year. \u00a0That&#8217;d be a challenge for anyone to handle. \u00a0Thinking that this growth might have been not too linear gives me digital goose bumps.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen anything recent describing their infrastructure, but <a href=\"http:\/\/highscalability.com\/blog\/2014\/3\/31\/how-whatsapp-grew-to-nearly-500-million-users-11000-cores-an.html\">this article<\/a> from last year provides a starting point for the imagination: \u00a0Erland + FreeBSD + 550 servers, with preference for larger box with loads of RAM and cores. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure that have grown quite a bit in a year too.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>TechCrunch is reporting on WhatsApp passing the 800,000,000 active users mark. \u00a0Almost exactly a year ago, it was at 500 million active users. \u00a0I don&#8217;t care much about WhatsApp&#8217;s business or service, but from the technical point of view this is quite significant. \u00a0That&#8217;s almost a million active users acquired every day for the last &hellip; 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