As you might have seen previously, Discord published a valuable article last year discussing how they successfully managed to store trillions of messages. While there are numerous Youtube videos and articles about this article, I think one section of this article, titled “Data Services Serving Data,” didn’t receive enough attention. In this article, we discuss Discord’s approach to data services and explore how we can leverage Golang’s concurrency features to reduce database load in certain scenarios.

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