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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

A deep dive into Discord's migration from MongoDB to Cassandra, and eventually to ScyllaDB to handle trillions of messages with low latency and high availability.

Engineering @ Discord• Oct 24, 2023• 12 min read

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