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How Discord supercharges network disks for extreme low latency
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
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How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
Engineer Bo Ingram shares insight into how Discord shoulders its traffic and provides a platform for our users to communicate.
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Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Starting on November 16, 2026, conversations in Discoverable Servers will be easier to find for people searching the web. Admins can choose which channels are surfaced on the web. Private servers, DMs, and GDMs are not included.
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Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
We’re excited to roll out a new way to help your community server hold organized, meaningful conversations without drowning each other out: Forum Channels.
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How discord stores billions of messages (2017)
We decided early on to store all chat history forever so users can come back at any time and have their data available. This is a lot of data: how do we do it?
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Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
How we rolled out zstandard and other improvements across our gateway cluster to reduce the amount of bandwidth that’s used by our clients.
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An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
This post explains why Rust made sense for Discord to reimplement: how it was done, and the resulting performance improvements.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.