Discord

How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users

Discord tuned its Elixir guild processes and fan-out paths, building custom libraries to push events to millions of concurrent users.

Published
2017-07-06
Scale
5,000,000 concurrent users
Techniques
fan-out concurrency load shedding
Stack
Elixir Erlang/BEAM

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