Save the date! Monster Scale Summit 2027 is March 10-11. Call for speakers is open. Building at extreme scale? Submit a talk.
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Discord relies on ScyllaDB to serve millions of reads per second across many clusters, so they needed a comprehensive strategy to sufficiently de-risk upgrades to avoid impact to our users. To accomplish this, they use what they call “shadow clusters.” This talk explains how testing with shadow clusters has been paramount to de-risking complicated upgrades for one of the most important pieces of infrastructure at Discord.
Ethan is a Senior Software Engineer on the Persistence Infrastructure team at Discord. Their favorite color is purple.
