[HN Gopher] Discord Serves 15M Users on One Server
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       Discord Serves 15M Users on One Server
        
       Author : afhammad
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-01-09 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.bytebytego.com)
        
       | giancarlostoro wrote:
       | These type of articles are always fun, though I mistakenly
       | thought they meant Discord was running on a single hardware
       | server, that would be fun to read. Though considering they run on
       | BEAM they can spread out the workload plenty. Still, I remember
       | when the hard limit for a Discord used to be 1 million, and then
       | along came MidJourney.
       | 
       | It's funny how in hindsight simple changes to major web
       | applications have a major impact. I remember, Tumblr used to show
       | you every statistic about your blog on the dashboard, that meant
       | every single time someone hit the front-page they had to query
       | the latest data to show you your follower count. Sometime after
       | they removed it from the Dashboard, I noticed Tumblr went offline
       | / down significantly less, I doubt that was the only optimization
       | they did, but I presume they did loads of optimizations to their
       | platform at the time.
        
       | nbittich wrote:
       | After I opened the link, there was a big chunk of text about AI,
       | then a popup asking me to subscribe appeared, and I closed the
       | tab.
        
       | kevincox wrote:
       | It is important to node here that by "Server" they mean the
       | Discord logical server concept which may more generically be
       | called a "community", "group" or "workspace". It has nothing to
       | do with the physical compute architecture.
       | 
       | So a title that would make sense to people not familiar with
       | Discord terminology could be:
       | 
       | > How Discord Serves 15M Members of a Single Workspace
        
         | Ajay-p wrote:
         | I thought for a moment that was one mighty machine.
        
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