How Instagram cut feed load time by 50% and Discord stores 100B+ messages
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-30
Two engineering write-ups shared: how Instagram reduced feed page load time by 50%, and how Discord stores over 100 billion messages — practical large-scale performance and storage architecture reads.
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