What people recommend, in their own words, with the receipt.
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ScyllaDBSoftware
After experimenting with ScyllaDB and observing improvements in testing, we made the decision to migrate all of our databases.
Discord's move of its message storage from Cassandra to ScyllaDB
discord.com ↗·2023-03-06Wrong?
TokioSoftware
The Tokio ecosystem is a tremendous foundation for building a system on asynchronous I/O
Discord on building its Rust data services on Tokio
discord.com ↗·2023-03-06Wrong?
RustSoftware
Even with just basic optimization, Rust was able to outperform the hyper hand-tuned Go version.
Why Discord rewrote its Read States service from Go to Rust
discord.com ↗·2020-02-04Wrong?
GoSoftware Google
With the Go implementation, the Read States service was not supporting its product requirements.
Why Discord moved the Read States service off Go
discord.com ↗·2020-02-04Wrong?
CassandraSoftware
To our chagrin, it was a high-toil system — our on-call team was frequently paged for issues with the database, latency was unpredictable, and we were having to cut down on maintenance operations that became too expensive to run.
Discord's move of its message storage off Cassandra
discord.com ↗·2023-03-06Wrong?
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