How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

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Apparently they switched to Scylla in 2020. Scylla sounds pretty legit. https://www.scylladb.com/press-release/discord-chooses-scylla-core-storage-layer/

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This is a typical modern approach. I don't know anything about Cassandra but these big distributed databases are complicated and generally unnecessary. Discord is perfectly suited for being a distributed app where each machine handles a few servers locally. This is much simpler, but of course modern scum never use the simple solution.