How Discord Stores Billions of Messages

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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.