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		combyn8tor on Aug 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) Well on one hand you've got engineers at a billion dollar company explaining how they've solved a problem. On the other hand you've got some random commentor on HN over-simplifying a complex engineering solution.

BigJono on Aug 25, 2021 [–]

Sounds to me like it's some "random commentor" who has solved a similar problem at a similar scale with a solution that's much simpler.

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