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		sumnole on Aug 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017) Just curious, what was the rationale for choosing MongoDB?

lmilcin on Aug 25, 2021 | [–]

Idk. I wasn't the one making the choice. I am just the one trying to make the best with what I have inherited.

eismcc on Aug 25, 2021 | [–]

Arctic [0] uses mongodb so perhaps that was inspiration?

[0] https://github.com/man-group/arctic

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