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How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages: Scaling Search Infrastructure

Vicki Niu14 minutes
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This talk shares how Discord scaled their message search infrastructure using Rust, Kubernetes, and a multi-cluster Elasticsearch architecture to achieve better performance, operability, and reliability, while also enabling new search features for Discord users.

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Vicki Niu, Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Discord

Vicki is a Senior Software Engineer on the Persistence Infrastructure team at Discord.

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