Discord Engineering
Discord's engineering posts, famous for how it stores trillions of messages (moving from Cassandra to ScyllaDB), using Rust to scale Elixir to millions of concurrent users, and switching a service from Go to Rust. Newer posts cover moving voice to the edge, automating ScyllaDB clusters and candid outage write ups. The category also carries developer platform announcements, so pick the infrastructure titles.
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Discord's engineering posts, famous for how it stores trillions of messages (moving from Cassandra to ScyllaDB), using Rust to scale Elixir to millions of concurrent users, and switching a service from Go to Rust. Newer posts cover moving voice to the edge, automating ScyllaDB clusters and candid outage write ups. The category also carries developer platform announcements, so pick the infrastructure titles.
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