How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive

Discord engineering goes into details of how they migrated from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, improved the performance of their reads and writes and rearchitected their backend to support the new load. It is an interesting episode lets get into it 0:00 Intro 1:50 Relational vs Distributed 7:00 The Cassandra Troubles 11:00 SnowFlake vs UUID 14:30 B+Tree 19:20 B+Tree and SSDs 25:30 LSM Trees 31:00 Hot partitions 36:00 Cassandra Garbage Collector Pauses 40:00 Changing the Architecture 45:00 The Data Services 55:00 The Migration 1:02:00 Zoned Named Spaces 1:04:00 Summary Article here How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages