How Discord Indexed Trillion of Messages Without Crashing Their Database

Опубликовано: 12 Июнь 2026
на канале: Kiki's Bytes

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In this video, we're going to learn how Discord managed to index billions of messages. Then we will explore the challenges to their initial architectural decisions as the system scale to trillions of messages and what they did to address these issues.

Original Articles:
  / discord
  / discord

Timeline:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:17 - Initial architecture
00:03:35 - Issue with scale
00:05:35 - Architectural redesign
00:08:00 - Ending

Credits:
   • hello world
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