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How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages

How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages

Discord's revamped search engine leans on Kubernetes and the Elastic Kubernetes Operator to shake up its query structure. No more lumbering clusters. They’ve split them into smaller, sprightlier versions. With this new trick, Discord can now efficiently index and search your DMs, thanks to savvy sharding per user instead of the old channel method.


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