
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Getting Value Faster Isn't It?
Migration was designed to get value quickly we'd start using our shiny new cluster Cut over and then migrate historical data behind it. It adds more complexity but what every large project needs is added complexity, okay? We elect to engage in some meme driven and green and rewrite everything in Rust. Oh God you and Rust in an afternoon. They are moving 3.2 million Per second that is nuts Right several days later they're looking at the hundred percent snow really hundred percent 99.99999 Why I give you the clef not hits they hit a partition that is Filled with tomb stomp tomb storms and tomb some are deleted messages basically right anything that's deletedright is a tombstone because as
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