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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

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Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages Lorem ipsum dolor sit > Mi neque maecenas Engineering & Developers How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages Bo Ingram March 6, 2023 In 2017, we wrote a blog post on how we store billions of messages. We shared our journey of how we started out using MongoDB but migrated our data to Cassandra because we were looking for a database that was scalable, fault-tolerant, and relatively low maintenance. We knew we’d be growing, and we did! We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs

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