Discord's Voice and Chat Architecture
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How Discord handles millions of concurrent voice and text users. Shows API Gateway, Elixir-based WebSocket Gateway for real-time text, Voice Gateway with WebRTC Selective Forwarding Units, Cassandra for message storage, Redis for presence tracking, Pub/Sub for message fanout, and guild-based sharding.
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How Discord handles millions of concurrent voice and text users. Shows API Gateway, Elixir-based WebSocket Gateway for real-time text, Voice Gateway with WebRTC Selective Forwarding Units, Cassandra for message storage, Redis for presence tracking, Pub/Sub for message fanout, and guild-based sharding.
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