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(2017) As revealed in this blog post[0], they now see 4 billion messages per day. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474093 https://news.ycombinator.co

• tmikaeld 4y ago
  And switched to ScyllaDB.
• samlambert 4y ago
  Around ~11k a second. Not small but not insane scale either.
  • judge2020 4y ago
    4,000,000,000/(24 • 60 • 60) ~= 46,000 And their mps definitely scales based on time-of-day, illustrated by this blog image[0] from this blog[1] (given their CPUs are only really handling messages). 0: https://assets-global.website-files.com/5f9072399b2640f14d6a2bf4/611ed6f4ff765c21c3ea810b_1*eT1PAnwaAcfCUikJ281v2g.png https://assets-global.website-files.com/5f9072399b2640f14d6a... 1: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
  • chrsig 4y ago
    as someone that's worked with a similar workload (edit: in terms of write volume, not persistent chat messages), it's an incredibly annoying volume. Too high for simple solutions, not big enough for large scale solutions.