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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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Databases & DataSystems & Performance2024
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2024 | How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) by jakey_bakey | 435 | 234 |
| Mar 6, 2023 | How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages by phineyes | 111 | 10 |
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Linked from 5 Hacker News comments by 5 different people, from Mar 2023 to Oct 2025.
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- lucb1e · Oct 1, 2025
- greenavocado · May 9, 2024
- dpflan · Feb 15, 2024
- datenyan · Jun 19, 2023
- techn00 · Mar 15, 2023