How Discord stores trillions of messages.

How Discord stores trillions of messages. In 2017 they published a technical post about how they stored billions. Here’s the follow-up: “We wanted a database that grew alongside us, but hopefully, its maintenance needs wouldn’t grow alongside our storage needs. Unfortunately, we found that to not be the case — our Cassandra cluster exhibited serious performance issues that required increasing amounts of effort to just maintain, not improve.” ~ learn more