How Discord Handled the Worlds Largest Server

Coding with Lewis β€’ February 27, 2025
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My name is Lewis. I am on a mission to inspire developers and tech enthusiasts. πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Professionally coding since 2016! Business: [email protected]

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In this video, we find out how Discord handled the worlds largest discord server... Which had over 2 MILLION active users. πŸš€ We go through: - How they found critical issues slowing performance - The solution to how they managed traffic of real time data. - The tech used to pull it off Article links used: https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-with-a-million-plus-online-users-in-a-single-server https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users Let me know what you would like to see next :) LINKS --- MY 12K+ DISCORD πŸ’¬ https://discord.gg/GkrFX4zT2C CONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL πŸ“Έ Instagram: https://instagram.com/lewismenelaws 🎚TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@lewismenelaws 🐣 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LewisMenelaws My gear πŸ’» https://liinks.co/lewismenelaws ----- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:18 The Largest Server Ever 1:04 The Problem... 1:40 Discord's Previous Architecture 2:21 The First MAJOR Fix 3:34 How It's Currently Working 3:57 Relays 5:25 The everyone command... 5:50 ETS 6:20 How Companies Diversify their Infrastructure 6:50 The Results 7:00 Thank you Discsord Engineers :)

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