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How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Cassandra

We also spent a large amount of time tuning the JVM garbage collector and heap setting because GC poses Would cause significant latency spikes. We had several other clusters and each inhabited similar Though perhaps not as severe faults in our previous iteration of this post we mentioned being intrigued by Cela DB a Cassandra compatible database written in C++. It's a it's promise of better performance faster repairs stronger workload isolation Via its short pair core architecture. So that each shard Live in its own CPU core. Although Cela DB is most definitely not avoid of issues, I love that they mentioned this.

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