These kinds of write-ups offer valuable insight into a popular project's requirements and decision-making, and are some of the most instructive resources one can find: these show not only the kinds of challenges one has to face at scale, but also how architectural choices are made.
It's far more valuable to understand why Discord uses Cassandra than to merely be aware they do.
Out of curiosity, did you consider HBase and Riak? Did you entertain going fully hosted with Bigtable? If so, what criteria resulted in Cassandra winning out?
It's far more valuable to understand why Discord uses Cassandra than to merely be aware they do.
Out of curiosity, did you consider HBase and Riak? Did you entertain going fully hosted with Bigtable? If so, what criteria resulted in Cassandra winning out?