
Design Discord: Scaling Real-Time Chat to Billions
How to architect a massive real-time communication platform. We dive into WebSocket gateways, the migration to ScyllaDB, consistent hashing for guild affinity, and handling massive voice channels.
Engineering thoughts, architectural patterns, and updates from the Xeost team.

How to architect a massive real-time communication platform. We dive into WebSocket gateways, the migration to ScyllaDB, consistent hashing for guild affinity, and handling massive voice channels.

How to harmonize frontend, backend, and infrastructure code generation by treating System Design as the single source of truth. Featuring Domain-Driven Structure and XeoContext.

Architecting a massively scalable social media platform. We explore fan-out strategies, database sharding, caching patterns, and the hybrid approach for handling celebrity timelines.

A deep dive into designing a scalable rate limiter. We explore Token Bucket, Sliding Windows, distributed synchronization issues, and high-performance optimizations using Redis and Lua.