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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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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?