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I haven't seen anyone mention video games/entertainment companies. LA is quite good if you're into those industries. I never really looked, but my gut says it has the highest conce…

Thanks Kagi team. It's really cool to see a search engine change in positive ways!

It gave Musk more time to destroy Twitter.

Me too. I wrote one of the more popular script packs for AutoRune. Looking back AutoRune had a pretty cool event based language. I was a noobie to programming so I didn't really un…

Ah yeah, just tested it and it says "IF APPLICABLE, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO DISCORD'S SF HQ? WHILE DISCORD IS EMBRACING A HYBRID REMOTE APPROACH GOING FORWARD, SOME ROL…

That's weird. Do you have a link to the job posting?

This isn't true anymore. We switched to allowing and supporting permanent remote work (writing this from Seattle).

We've moved quite a few datasets from Cassandra to Scylla, but not messages. I think we're planning to make a blog post about our experience with Scylla at some point.

Kind of weird that California is tied for 3rd on the list but they make it a point to say people are "fleeing" California before mentioning the other top 3.

rsc said they made some big improvements for this particular type of problem. I'm not sure which version of go the improvements landed in.

Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system. We also combo Elixir NIFs …

Original author here. Cool to see it posted again. We're still using and investing in rust at Discord. For example, in the past year we successfully pulled part of the core messagi…

We are hiring at Discord https://discordapp.com/jobs

No worries, we could have mentioned that in the post as part of the service history :)

Also worth noting: Most requests to the service have to update many Read States. For instance, when you @everyone in the Minecraft server we have to update over 500,000 Read States…

We originally cached this data with a Redis cluster but we hit scaling issues. The Read States service only exists because Redis had issues.

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 150 million users in the…

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 130 million users in the…

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 90 million to 130 million users in the…

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the …

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is building a platform dedicated to connecting people through games. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the …

Discord | Senior Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE Discord is increasingly how gamers communicate. We grew from 45 million to 90 million users in the last 6 months. We have over 1…