When popular social networking service Discord migrated its messages cluster from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, it reduced message latencies from 200 milliseconds to 5 milliseconds.

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Discord migrated its messages cluster from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, reducing latencies from 200 milliseconds to 5 milliseconds. They built a data service library to streamline queries, created a 'Superdisk' with persistent disks and NVMe SSDs, and made modifications to ScyllaDB for compatibility with the Superdisk.

How Discord Migrated Trillions of Messages to ScyllaDB

<p>Such an amazing read 👍 I had my eye on ScyllaDB for awhile but had no clue they’ve grown to take over Discord workload 👌Kudos to the team at ScyllaDB 🙏</p>
