BigData using Erlang, C and Lisp to Fight the Tsunami of Mobile Data by Jon Vlachogiannis.
From the post:
BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its customers, which include VMWare, Samsung, Skype and thousands of independent app developers. Tracking more than 200M devices requires fast, fault tolerant and cheap infrastructure.
The last six months, we’ve decided to use our BigData infrastructure, to provide the users with metrics about their apps performance and stability and let them know how the errors affect their user base and revenues.
We knew that our solution should be scalable from day one, because more than 4% of the smartphones out there, will start DDOSing us with data.
A number of lessons to consider if you want a system that scales.