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Nice to see both the scale of the problems that Discord is attacking and the detail of the write-up of how they go about it. I always wondered whether migrating from Cassandra to Scylla would be worth it and it turns out that it is.

https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

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