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how Discord stores trillions of messages

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What happened

how Discord stores trillions of messages: this company case is a placeholder. Replace it with your own summary of the public engineering write-up, what the team built, and what it cost them.

Describe the architecture at the time, in the vocabulary of this course: the tiers, the stores, the queues, and the promises each made.

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