[jnewland]

I threw out that prototype soon after the talk. At the time, there weren't a lot of other engineers at the company doing Erlang, so maintenance was considered to be a long-term problem. I'm glad we made that call.

[misterbee]

There are so many presentations of the form "We're using Erlang/Scala/whatever, it's so awesome!", but so few followups when they give up on the idea for production..

[troutwine]

It's hard to sustain some alternate technology in the face of common knowledge. Rarely does technical advantage outweigh hard-won operational experience.

[nosequel]

As much of a fan of Erlang and Riak as I am, you did make the right call. If you only have one or two people on the team who want to know that technology, then it isn't a smart move to base a core piece of technology on it (Erlang) just because it might be the best answer. Sometimes an okay answer that everyone is familiar with is much better.