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https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users
Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.
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https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-000-concurrent-users
How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5,000,000 Concurrent Users
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https://www.openanalytics.eu/blog/2025/08/19/shinyproxy-cost-effective-public-app/
Affordable Shiny app hosting for 500 concurrent users
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https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-million-concurrent-voice-users-using-webrtc
How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users using WebRTC
This post gives a brief overview of the different technologies Discord uses to make audio/video communications a seamless reality.
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