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Why Discord Moved from MongoDB to Apache Cassandra, Let us Discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Cassandra Partitioning Problem

Mungodevi would partition on, i don't know, channel idea. If the channel has a lot of messages, only that channel will get effect. Cassandra advertised that it can support two gg b partitions. So why do we have why are you yelling at us when we read each hundred mega bite worth ofar who cares? That is that is bad practice. Doest if they support something doesn't mean that's a good idea.

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