Discord, on the Joy of Opinionated Systems
Mark Smith of Discord described the benefits of "opinionated systems;" systems providing strong indications of best practices. Talk from ScyllaDB Summit 2018.
Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users
From the beginning, Discord has been an early adopter of Elixir. The Erlang VM was the perfect candidate for the highly concurrent…
In the race to beat Steam, the Discord Store just made a huge move
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How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC
From the very start, we made very conscious engineering and product decisions to keep Discord well suited for voice chat while playing…